Time travel - when, where and why?
Discussion
Lost Soul said:
I'd go back to when i was about 7 or 8 and tell my much younger self to think every decision through properly, be it financial, physical or mental. However, i would warn my much younger self that if i still started smoking, i would come back and kick myself inside out
I wish I had spent my money much more wisely. when I think about my savings compared to what I have earned the last 12 years I really should have a lot more money in the bank.
evenflow said:
Well I wouldn't go back and kill Hitler when he was a baby, because then nobody would have heard of Hitler and I'd be arrested for killing a random baby.
Made me think how odd it must have been at the registrars in the late 1800s.... "What are you going to call this baby?"
"Adolf Hitler"
"Are you having a laugh!"
Not religious at all but would go back to the time of the baby Jesus and see what the crack was that led to the story that so many people believe. I.e. was there an inspiration or was it completely made up from nothing.
Time of building the pyramids to see what the Aliens who built them look like.
Time of building the pyramids to see what the Aliens who built them look like.
Are we allowed to have knowledge of the future?
If so, anywhere in 1960 at 18 years old, win a few million because I know sports results etc.... and then have an absolute blast for three decades.
If not, then mission control, 20th July, 1969. (Unless I'm allowed to be Neil Armstrong, in which case, the Sea of Tranquility, 20th July, 1969).
If so, anywhere in 1960 at 18 years old, win a few million because I know sports results etc.... and then have an absolute blast for three decades.
If not, then mission control, 20th July, 1969. (Unless I'm allowed to be Neil Armstrong, in which case, the Sea of Tranquility, 20th July, 1969).
Pitre said:
evenflow said:
Well I wouldn't go back and kill Hitler when he was a baby, because then nobody would have heard of Hitler and I'd be arrested for killing a random baby.
Made me think how odd it must have been at the registrars in the late 1800s.... "What are you going to call this baby?"
"Adolf Hitler"
"Are you having a laugh!"
I thought his original name was Adolf Schickelgrüber... What time travel stories always ignore is that we are not just moving through time, we are moving (very quickly) through space as the solar system is whizzing around the Milky Way and the Milky Way is moving through the universe too. If you went back in time for years you would find yourself in deep space.
Ignoring that little problem…I would probably go back to a week last Tuesday. I did the laundry then we watched a film. We won’t see the likes of those days again…
Ignoring that little problem…I would probably go back to a week last Tuesday. I did the laundry then we watched a film. We won’t see the likes of those days again…
Skeptisk said:
What time travel stories always ignore is that we are not just moving through time, we are moving (very quickly) through space as the solar system is whizzing around the Milky Way and the Milky Way is moving through the universe too. If you went back in time for years you would find yourself in deep space.
Ignoring that little problem…I would probably go back to a week last Tuesday. I did the laundry then we watched a film. We won’t see the likes of those days again…
Yes true but if we can travel through time and have solved that conundrum then space and time shouldn't be much harder. Ignoring that little problem…I would probably go back to a week last Tuesday. I did the laundry then we watched a film. We won’t see the likes of those days again…
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