I am certain that I could develop a new idea. A new idea could be an original arrangement of pre-existing ideas. For instance, imagine a graduate student at Berkley that develops a technique to send a message back in time by entangling electrons and changing the spi so you are able to detect the changes in the past. He figures out that according to the theories the technique should work, however, whenever he tests his predictions he only recieves random data. He is about to abandon his research when he decides to add another electron to the entanglement, and once he changes the spin of that electron he starts to observe spin changes in a non-random sequence, meaning that he is receiving a message from the future. Inspired he works through the night validating the data, making tests and validating his observations. A week later he is preparing his research for publishing when a government agency accosts him and confinscates all of his lab equipment. After months of incarceration in a government building he is allowed to leave. Meanwhile an obscure agency of the government has exploited his work for their own gain and has involved the country in a dilema that has made the world much worse off. He returns to Berkley to find his original equipment returned. He realizes that he has an obligation to correct the situation. Ge sets up the equipment again and jumbles the sequence of spins on the electrons to create a random nonsense message to be received in the past. Then the past gets changed and he is back in his lab finding that the electron that he just added to the entanglement still yields random data. After a while he considers adding yet another electron to the entanglement.