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Undisclosed: Toward Justice

State v. Terrance Lewis – Episode 2 – The Bootstrap Paradox

Undisclosed: Toward Justice

mital

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

December 11, 2017 / Years after Terrance Lewis' conviction for the murder of Bernard Howard in 1996, new witnesses come forward with information that, according to a federal court, proved his actual innocence. So why does Terrance Lewis remain in prison today?

Image: the photos from array #1, used to identify Terrance Lewis (pic 7)

Episode scoring music by Animal Weapon, Blue Dot Sessions.

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0:00.0

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0:29.7

There's a famous paradox in science fiction known as the Boots Strat paradox.

0:56.8

It relates to time travel and you see it in everything from the Bill and Ted movies to the

1:00.6

Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. The Boots Strat paradox occurs when an object or piece of

1:05.6

information is sent back in time, whereas retrieved and becomes the very object or piece of

1:10.4

information that was brought back in the beginning. One of the more recent examples of the Boots

1:14.8

Strat paradox can be found in the Doctor Who episode before the flood. Imagine that a time

1:19.3

traveler is a fan of Beethoven and travels back to 1800 Vienna with copies of Beethoven's

1:24.3

sheet music for him to sign, only to find out that nobody has heard of Beethoven.

1:28.3

12th Doctor Peter Capaldi explains.

1:30.8

This is called the Boots Strat paradox. Google it. The time travel at Panics.

1:40.0

They can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven. Luckily,

1:44.4

he brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign. So he copies out all the

1:50.9

concertos and the symphonies and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven.

1:59.5

And history continues with Balea Feather Ruffle.

2:08.3

My question is this. He took those notes and phrases together who really composed Beethoven's fifth.

2:21.0

Of course, this fits the definition of a paradox, a statement or proposition that despite sound

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