So, I have an idea for time travel that could work.
Ok, say you figured out how to build a time machine on your own. I mean, you did the math and the physics or whatever, wasted your whole life working on it, and in the end figured out how to do it. This seems plausible, if we assume that it is possible for time travel and that someone could figure it out (which would be fucking hard).
So you have your time machine, and you can go to any time period you want. The only problem is that you spent your whole life figuring out how to time travel and now your too fucking old to do it. I mean you only have a few more years left. So you could go to the future looking for a cure for old age , but this is really hit and miss 'cause maybe no one ever finds a cure, or even worse, the cure just keeps you living in the same old decrepit body.
So instead, you have a flash of insight and decide on something else. You figure that since you can go into the past, you could meet yourself when your still young, and give your self the blueprints or whatever for a time machine. That way you would alter the past and you wouldn't have to spend your whole life figuring out how to make one. And you could do all the time travel you want while your still young.
So, suppose you went through with it, here's how your life would go: Your born and whatever and, at a fairly young age yourself from the future comes and shows you the secret to time travel. Then old you goes back to the future, and you go on and build your time machine. Then, you travel through time your whole life and when your old, you just go back in time to visit young you and explain time travel.
Seems like it would work and it would definitely save a lot of time and trouble. This gives me hope that one day old me will show up to teach me the secrets to time travel.
There is however one problem with this: If you go back in time to teach your self, therefore altering the past, no one ever really figures out time travel. Its like you give yourself the knowledge that you don't even have. Think about it, its fucked up.
So I don't know what that means but it's a paradox I think. Unless knowledge can just pop into your mind.
Anyways, thats my theory...
