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Joseph Polchinski

BIRTH DATE:  5/16/1954
DEATH DATE:  Still Traveling!
CRAFT:  Science
NATIONALITY:  American
PROFESSION:  theoretical physicist and string theorist
TRAVELS:  Authored Polchinski's Paradox, which states that a billiard ball can be thrown into a wormhole in such a way that it would emerge in the past and knock its incoming past self away from the wormhole entrance, creating a variant of the grandfather paradox.
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