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No. I didn't come up with it because I couldn't think of an answer. I came up with it because I still remember the topic from before and know where this led before

Skye: Because theorizing and saying for certain are different things. I actually misused "imply", sorry. Sonic will never have any official explanation or evidence for the use of time travel, so we can only use other franchises for theorizing on it. A good example of how they don't even try, and this one couldn't even be explained by another source. Elise's Emerald doesn't even count as an eighth one as the game strongly suggests in the last story that they are timeless and can't have duplicates, so how could the seven emeralds be used in any previous game if she had it for 10 years ? Even more messed up than Men in Black 3.

Dylan: I think I remember seing this kind of discussion, and I can understand your reaction.

Also, it's not a true bootstrap paradox. In the Dr Who example, there was NO Beethoven to write the songs. In this example, there IS a Sonic who can come up with the Boost on his own, independently. The only way to make it a paradox is if Sonic learned Boost from some hermit in a robe or something, only that hermit was his future self come back to teach him the secret.