I was thinking about paradoxes and time travel.

Like, what if you went back in time and gave someone, like Albert Einstein, their most famous work.

You just hand the dude everything about relativity he supposedly created before he's created it.

Does that mean General Relativity willed itself into being? Or that the universe gave us that information? Where did it come from in that sort of time travel situation?

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@Surasanji Obviously information was created/discovered at first by Einstein et al. Then it passed over to you and you used time travel to push the time of creation/discovery backwards. With time machine, timeline of events cannot be set in stone in the way we think history is.

I have a scarier version : Suppose you time travel back and convince the inventor of time machine not to invent the machine and the time machine that you travelled back in time with was never invented. What happens to you after that? What about the machine? How is it even there without being invented?

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