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In _Steins;Gate_ , Suzuha brings the lab member a pin to the past.

[![the
pin](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jErSL.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jErSL.jpg)

Okabe remembers the pin and makes one in future, does this pose information
paradox?


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Does the pin in Steins;Gate pose any information paradox?


If Steins;Gate was set on a single timeline then you could describe this
exchange as an information paradox. However, the series is known to use a
multiple timelines model, which can allow for this case:

  * Timeline A: Someone (Okabe?) designs the pin.
  * Timeline B,C,D,...: The story unfolds, the pin may or may not have already been created in the different timelines, and may or may not have been shown by Suzuha at all.
  * Timeline Z (that is not A): The timeline in which Suzuha brings the pin To Okabe AND Okabe ends up recreating it.

Of course, the information paradox could still apply in the multiple timelines
model (if timelines Z and A were one and the same), even though it is more
likely to have taken place over multiple timelines without looping back, with
a clear start and end.


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