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The [[Twelfth Doctor]] used it to illustrate the "[[Temporal paradox|bootstrap paradox]]", telling them to [[Google]] it. He used it as part of an analogy, referring to a [[time travel]]ler who went back in time to meet his hero Beethoven, only to find that he did not exist, prompting him to use his future knowledge to produce the works attributed to Beethoven himself, meaning that the traveller was inspired by himself, and therefore all knowledge and events were self perpetuating and paradoxical. Posing the question "Who wrote Beethoven's fifth?", he took out an [[electric guitar]] and played the symphony's opening bars. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood]]'') | The [[Twelfth Doctor]] used it to illustrate the "[[Temporal paradox|bootstrap paradox]]", telling them to [[Google]] it. He used it as part of an analogy, referring to a [[time travel]]ler who went back in time to meet his hero Beethoven, only to find that he did not exist, prompting him to use his future knowledge to produce the works attributed to Beethoven himself, meaning that the traveller was inspired by himself, and therefore all knowledge and events were self perpetuating and paradoxical. Posing the question "Who wrote Beethoven's fifth?", he took out an [[electric guitar]] and played the symphony's opening bars. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood]]'') | ||
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The fifth symphony was a famous piece of music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The Twelfth Doctor used it to illustrate the "bootstrap paradox", telling them to Google it. He used it as part of an analogy, referring to a time traveller who went back in time to meet his hero Beethoven, only to find that he did not exist, prompting him to use his future knowledge to produce the works attributed to Beethoven himself, meaning that the traveller was inspired by himself, and therefore all knowledge and events were self perpetuating and paradoxical. Posing the question "Who wrote Beethoven's fifth?", he took out an electric guitar and played the symphony's opening bars. (TV: Before the Flood)
