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First I would go back 1000 years with various advanced modern technologies and give them to ye olden peoples to study and learn from, so that by today technology would be so advanced we'd already have teleporters and robot maids and be taking vacations in distant galaxies and other neat stuff. Then I would go back to 1980, hunt down Johnny Depp as a struggling musician, and make him mine.
travel to the pasts, of none other than the growth of various Asian civilizations. one consideration is to go a few decades into the past when my parents were younger.
I would have kept my diaries instead of destroying the evidence, and I would act against _________ sooner.
I would be too scared to travel through time, out of fear of somehow ruining something. If I knew it was safe and could somehow sort of go to the future, check it out and everything without actually influencing it in any kind of way (sort of like being a ghost)... then I'd probably go ahead 200 years into the future and look at stuff like technology improvements and whatnot, but I would avoid finding out about my future as much as I can, because knowing your future sort of ruins half the reason for living.
I would go to ancient Mesopatamia and become known as Alexander The Great.
Probably visit Jesus. And fix up a few bad things I have regretted.
We can save Jesus from being crucified, then bring him back with us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mittopotahis
I'd jump hither and thither and correct stuff that I regretted doing/not doing.
However, that would cause a paradox, because my jumping to the past and correcting everything would erase them from the present, and therefore I'd never had any need of travelling back in the first place. :D:rolleyes2
I'd actually pay attention in school instead of being lazy and smurfing things up for myself. Other than that, I'd probably go back in time, visit events in history, blahblah.
Jesus predicted his death so there's nothing you could have done to stop it from hapenningQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBrent
you could kidnap him, course he might predict that too and then twart your plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by mobiletype
But i would like to go to the future and get a lightsaber or something and a like a personal shield like in Halo then go own in all the ancient wars. And then be worshipped like a god for being unkillable.
I'd go back to the Big Bang and tell God not to bother- it'd just be a waste of his time.
As a side note: "Technically, you would only need one time-traveller convention." - Cat, Cat and Girl
My ideas of time travel make it so that I can't go back and change anything that's already happened in the past. I could only do what I already did. What's happened in the past is already done so you can't change anything because you didn't change things. If you did manage to go back and change things in the past, it would have played out so that the present you wouldn't know the circumstances in which things happened differently. Does that make sense?
Anyway, in line with my thinking of time travel, benefits for me would only exist in the future where I could learn about lotto ticket numbers or which companies are doing well in the stock market.
The reasoning behind that is the grandfather paradox, but applies in many situations. If you went back in time and killed Hitler and the atrocities he committed never happened, then in 2006 you'd never have any reason to go back in time and kill Hitler because he would never would have committed those atrocities.
Future time travel is perhaps infinitely less certain than going back in time. Saying that you'd go forward in time to get lotto numbers means that it's impossible to escape any actions that would change the outcome of those numbers. Who's to say between then and now something changes? Certainly when you come back with the lotto numbers not everything in the universe would play itself out exactly as it did before. There's just way too much to know and no real place to start to really understand anything about time travel, if at all possible.
Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
The future would only change if you're thinking of time as a linear progression. Maybe it's not. Maybe everything that has or will happen just... exists. I'm thinking along the lines of how the Tralfamadorians viewed time in Slaughterhouse Five. In which case, what happens in the future is just as cemented as what has already happened in the past.