I'm pretty sure the numbers are randomized, so just through the impact of you being there for a minute, the younger you acting and thinking different, everyone younger you comes into contact with making slightly different movements and thinking slightly different thoughts, and everyone those people come into contact with, etc. etc. I'm basing the thought that the numbers would be different on the butterfly effect.
I definitely wouldn't pass up the opportunity either, but I would be skeptical that it would work.
Since the OP's post doesn't posit that anything would necessarily change other than us talking to our younger selves, I don't think it's necessary to assume that anything we do to alter our past is automatically doomed to failure. Yes, maybe it stirs up the quantum foam sufficiently to randomize the numbers differently but we don't know that quantum physics works that way since we have no practical experience with time travel. It's a fun thought experiment, not a physics test. ;)
I'm pretty sure the numbers are randomized, so just through the impact of you being there for a minute, the younger you acting and thinking different, everyone younger you comes into contact with making slightly different movements and thinking slightly different thoughts, and everyone those people come into contact with, etc. etc. I'm basing the thought that the numbers would be different on the butterfly effect.
I definitely wouldn't pass up the opportunity either, but I would be skeptical that it would work.
Since the OP's post doesn't posit that anything would necessarily change other than us talking to our younger selves, I don't think it's necessary to assume that anything we do to alter our past is automatically doomed to failure. Yes, maybe it stirs up the quantum foam sufficiently to randomize the numbers differently but we don't know that quantum physics works that way since we have no practical experience with time travel. It's a fun thought experiment, not a physics test. ;)
Yeah, I know, just thought I'd mess with the thought experiment :P