Explaining causal loops

Analysis 72 (2):259-264 (2012)
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This article argues that the causal loops that occur in some time-travel scenarios and in certain solutions of the theory of relativity are no more mysterious than the infinitely descending causal chains familiar from Newtonian mechanics

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