User blog comment:ReverseZoom101/2 Weird things you may or may not have noticed in The Flash/@comment-3423279-20161019151749/@comment-3423279-20161019160205

Eobard read a book or went to a museum about The Flash and became obsessed with the hero and decided to recreate the experiment that made him have powers.

It's like if there was someone famous in the past that someone wanted to meet and then you found a time machine, you might use it to go and speak with them.