>>14238787I knew a troll would seize upon that if I gave them the opportunity. Good thing for humanity you don't get to decide what ideas are "allowed to be known" and which are not.
Everything starts with either direct synthesis of different concepts or a pure intuition. Most of these do not make it to the drawing board, but when an idea checks out and you check it against reality and it matches up, you can publish. I choose not to publish in places like Arxiv for a few reasons. One being that I would lose my anonymity, two being that the postings could be removed by Arxiv, something they've been known to do to people without university credentials. Third, when the thing you're inventing/conceptualizing is of great magnitude and some of those things deal with temporal science, it eventually puts you on someone's shitlist. The U.S. Government of present day would not simply allow me to draw breath on this Earth if they knew who I was (and believed my ideas were credible.) Posting in the places I post belies the credibility of my ideas while still creating a following and perhaps allowing for some people to carry the ideas forward.
Further forward, the people who ultimately have enough faith in my ideas to develop them and prove them correct will draw the ire of the world, and other parties will have reason to actually tamper with the past in order to prevent my activities. I don't believe it is necessarily so, but it MAY be dangerous for the person who "invents time travel" to be a public figure or to even have their identity known to a single person.
This is very evocative of The Terminator, I know, but the fact is that more conventional threats like human envy and a lack of privacy would come into play, just as they do for all high-profile figures. Having notoriety would not necessarily lead to lucrative opportunities (it didn't for Christopher Langan) so there would be little upside.
