• NOA GINIGER
  GRANDFATHER PARADOX
• 24 JUNE - 31 JULI 2010 
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Gaston Zvi Ickowicz |  Noa Giniger | Guy Goldstein | Tomer Sapir

Curator: Avi Lubin


The grandfather Paradox is a time-travel paradox that asks: suppose a man travels back in time and kills his grandfather, and thus prevents his own birth. How can he travel back in time and kill his grandfather?

The solutions offered by scientists to this paradox are diverse. Some argue that time travel can only be possible to the future and not to the past, so that there won't be a paradoxical contravention between the present and the past; others suggest parallel universes that allow the existence of different narratives, even contradicting ones. "Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis" claims that traveling back in time can only be possible to singular points at the center of a black hole, where the laws of physics are not valid and there is no meaning to causality and what happened first. There is an irony to this hypothesis. The universe dictates a cosmic censorship: the scientist, who manages to go back in time to a black-hole, will never be able to come back and report.


In the paradoxical reality of our lives, which is characterized by frequent attacks on binary thinking (good and bad, life and death, present and absent) and on elemental relation between past, present and future, there is a significant meaning to the encounter with the fragmented and distorted present, which has a volume and a surplus of past and future. In this structure of temporality and lack of coherence, reality is only a possible (but inessential) form of the appearance of things.