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"By His Bootstraps" short story from 1941 that deals with the problems of paradoxes: http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/scifi/byhisbootstraps.pdf

Nice illustration of a closed time loop: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/loop.gif

Ocarina of Time video: youtube.com/watch?v=htj-U0v4VL0

Time dilation: http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module4_time_dilation.htm

Interesting article from Princeton University about paradoxes: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/merlinos/Paradoxes%20of%20Time%20Travel.pdf

Article on the Butterfly Effect: https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Butterfly_effect.html

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