Not so farcical as it sounds. At the quantuum mechanics level, time really does not behave “normally” (as we see it in the macro world). Hawkins among others has posited that the mind is based on QM effects — basically a macro effect of a bunch of QM events. The idea that some of the distemporal aspects of QM “come along for the ride” really isn’t that farcical. Maybe the idea is not true or correct, but just possibly maybe it is.
I am probably one of the few in the thread who took the time to consider your comment and I do follow what you're saying. Just finished Kip Thorne's book "Black Holes and Time Warps" and found it interesting how he speculated that zero point energy (particles springing up from quantum fields in various quantum states) can mediate what can and can not occur within wormholes. In other words, quantum fluctuations would prevent a time traveler from ever encountering the classical time travel paradoxes. Since those paradoxes would throw a bucket of supercooled water on the whole idea, time travel through wormholes is still a "go".
Regarding the eggs, I think there is a real phenomenon there, not that we could ever put it to any useful purpose. Nature seems to limit those opportunities.