Suppose a man travels from the future to the past and gives someone a specific object. Many years later, the same man finds the same object and, using it, builds a time machine. Then, the same man goes back to the past and gives the same object.
Now the question arises: where did that object originate? Who created it first? The answer is: no one.
That object is simply stuck in a loop of time.
It has neither a first cause nor a first creator.
This is called the Bootstrap Paradox.
When something exists without being born, it becomes its own cause.
Let's understand this with another simple example.
Suppose you travel from the future to the past and give your father a brilliant idea. That idea makes him successful. Because of that success, you are born into favorable circumstances and later build a time machine. Then, you go back to the past and give him the same idea.
Now think about where the idea came from.
From you.
And where did you come from?
Because of that idea.
That is, cause and effect are going round and round.
Now let's talk about Dark, without giving away any spoilers.
Dark is a series entirely based on this idea.
Things happen in this world because they have already happened.
And they have happened because they will happen in the future.
Here, the future creates the past, and the past creates the future.
There is no clear beginning in between.
Characters make many decisions because they have seen those decisions already made.
And those decisions, in turn, give rise to the future they know.
There are many things in Dark—an object, some information, some mystery—that no one created.
They simply keep moving in time.
The real question of this series isn't how time travel happens. The real question is: if time is circular, is man truly free? Or is he compelled to do what has already happened?
Dark shows that time travel is not an exciting game, but a trap where everything becomes its own cause.
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