My neighbor's 9-year-old daughter dismantled my time travel theory in 10 minutes flat
After my last cookout in Columbus, I was going on about how closed timelike curves could work with wormholes. His kid, who was eating a popsicle, asked if I could rewind a tape that was already destroyed. Then she said, 'So you need a machine to fix the machine first, right?' I froze. I had never considered bootstrap paradoxes from that angle. Now I'm rethinking if causality is even real or just a pattern our brains invent. Anyone else get wrecked by a kid asking the simple question you missed for years?