Time Travel!

If you had a time machine BUT you were only allowed one trip (there and back (if you so choose to go back)) where would you go?

Answer for two scenarios of time travel:
1) Whatever you do in the past (or present when you get back from the future) will effect the future (creating an alternate timeline/universe)
2) Whatever you do will not in anyway effect the future (so its an observatory trip to see what mightve happened if you changed something in the past or what will definitely happen no matter what you do if you go to the future)

No travelling through time to get more time machines or wishing for more wishes

I would go back and punch my twelve year old self in the face.

Considering 1), I would be very confused, and in pain, for a small period of time. And considering both 1) and 2) my present self would feel pretty good haha.

I'd go back to 1994 and see all the concerts that I can't see now...and bill hicks.

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Originally Posted by Archive

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Huxley looked back on his life and realised where it had all gone wrong. He had let scrumpleberry get away.

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If only there was some way to change history...to change the past...but wait...

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In a dream, designs of a curious device came to him.


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Strapping himself in, he smiles. Today, he will realise his destiny.
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BACK TO THE FUTURE!

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"Ah! It worked! Yes, hello! I would like to hold your child for a small while. May I do so?"


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"Uh, sure, I guess. Also that's a neat new t-shirt. Where'd you get it?"
"Eastern Germany".

Part two here!

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More infomation here:bigsmile:

Other than that maybe I will send a robot cat to the past to help my ancestor! :bigsmile:

Once I figure out Homer’s recipe for donut rain, I am so perverting history

The obvious choice for situation 1 is go back in time and invest in stocks you know are going to do well. Duh.

As for number 2, I'd probably go back and watch concerts.

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Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod

The obvious choice for situation 1 is go back in time and invest in stocks you know are going to do well. Duh.

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That and tell my future self to pick the right courses to become a voice actor!

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Originally Posted by Nominus Experse

I would convince the Mongolians that their traditions concerning burial are not worth an entire kingdom (world).

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I am sure you would be a very delicious meal for their leader on that evening.

If I go back in time with the clear intention of changing something, then I'll have lost the need to change something once I change it, so we'll have a nice little paradox there.

I don't know what I'd do if I could have a trip that doesn't change anything, though. :p

With the intention of changing something... I'd probably either go somewhere something awesome happened and I didn't have my camera, but instead I would have my camera with me. Like the danceoff between my drunk mom and some nerdy guy married to a porn star.... OR even better.... Go into the past and invent something that has already been invented and would make me lots of money.

If I went to the past just to relive it with no consequences, I really don't know what I would do. Probably something bad. Or maybe I'd just eat lots of junk food.

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1) Whatever you do in the past (or present when you get back from the future) will effect the future (creating an alternate timeline/universe)

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I'd go back to when I bought my new car and tell myself that the green in the brochure won't look as good on the car itself. Get red, black or white.

OR

Knock that first cigarette out of my hands.

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2) Whatever you do will not in anyway effect the future (so its an observatory trip to see what mightve happened if you changed something in the past or what will definitely happen no matter what you do if you go to the future)

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I'd probably make a lot of big plans to experience the world, do all sorts of things I'd missed out on etc. but end up playing video games 24/7.

probably something money-making for #1

for #2, I'd go to Woodstock

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Originally Posted by Kentarou

If I go back in time with the clear intention of changing something, then I'll have lost the need to change something once I change it, so we'll have a nice little paradox there.

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What? That's not a paradox. :confused:

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Originally Posted by Kentarou

If I go back in time with the clear intention of changing something, then I'll have lost the need to change something once I change it, so we'll have a nice little paradox there.

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Not quite, it just means you create an alternate timeline but if you've altered it enough so your future self never goes back in time when you get back to the future there'll be two of you there. So if you invest stock into something make sure you do it under a false identity, otherwise your alternate self will be rich, and if you were a rich bastard would you spare a penny for anyone? Even yourself from an alternate universe?

@_@ This is weird.

I don't like time travel.

I would go back to 2001 and give teenage Amanda and teenage BJ better career advice!

Go back and kill myself to see if I disappear or if the universe tries to realign itself or something. Or have sex with myself. You know, something totally normal like that.

1) I'd go back in time several decades and kill the inventor of the time machine while he's asleep in his crib. The probability that somebody will do something that causes a severe time paradox is too great to allow such a dangerous trinket to exist.

2) I'd probably just go 50 years into the future and check up on myself so I know what to do and what not to do later on. Even if I'm dead by then, at least I know how I died and how I can prevent it from happening~

You cant prevent it from happening, no matter how hard you try it will happen, thats the point of scenario 2

According to the multiple reality theory set by Einstein, you wouldn't need to visit the past, because this would merely make a new reality, and why go through all that trouble when you could hop to another reality that has everything you want (and within infinite possibilities, there will be one where you have what you want). I'm assuming that since you have power of space-time, a simple reality jump won't make that much of a difference.

But personally, I think time is more like a jigsaw. You can go back, but all the changes you made will already have been done when you leave. It all fits together, like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Well since going forward dosent seem to be against the ruels I would go to next week find the lotto numbers and come bak and collect oh yea

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Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight

According to the multiple reality theory set by Einstein, you wouldn't need to visit the past, because this would merely make a new reality, and why go through all that trouble when you could hop to another reality that has everything you want (and within infinite possibilities, there will be one where you have what you want). I'm assuming that since you have power of space-time, a simple reality jump won't make that much of a difference.

But personally, I think time is more like a jigsaw. You can go back, but all the changes you made will already have been done when you leave. It all fits together, like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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That's half what I meant with scenario 2, no matter what you do it already happened.

And the time machine i have described can only go foward and backwards in the time line it is already in. In order to move it 'sideways' in time to a alternate reality you have to make the changes yourself to shift it to a different timeline. And its not like you can just 'look' at alternate realities to see which one fits you, and becuase you're only allowed one trip you cant just check them all out until you find the right one.

Well since going forward dosent seem to be against the ruels I would go to next week find the lotto numbers and come bak and collect oh yea

For 1, I don't really know. I'd have to think long and hard on it and come up with a scheme to enrich my life without running afoul of unforseen consequences.

For 2, I'd go permanently about 50 years into the future. Think about it--if you went back to 1990 with a PS3, people would have thought you were God. Imagine what will be out there 50 years from now. Not just game consoles -- all kinds of technology. New computers, new cell phones, new game consoles, vehicles, maybe even technology of a sort that hasn't even been conceived of yet.

50 years is a proper number; if you start going hundreds of years into the future maybe you run into a dystopia or find no living humans left, or a world changed to the point where it's become completely alien and you can't understand anybody. (Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell). 50 years from now, the world will still be recognizable, people will still understand present-day English...it'll be the world we know, but improved.

Or you would find a world ravaged by the next great war wich is probably less than 50 years off. But hey why are wee even discussing this the internet says the world is going down in a Lil more than 2 yrs and the internet is always right

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

(Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell)

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coo' luv, innit jes mad wot a danky muckin' there's been wif ar speakins? roight roight

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Originally Posted by rubah

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

(Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell)

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coo' luv, innit jes mad wot a danky muckin' there's been wif ar speakins? roight roight

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My brain hurts after reading that. :(

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Originally Posted by rubah

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

(Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell)

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coo' luv, innit jes mad wot a danky muckin' there's been wif ar speakins? roight roight

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I think this comic fits nicely.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/period_speech.png

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

(Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell)

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coo' luv, innit jes mad wot a danky muckin' there's been wif ar speakins? roight roight

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In faith 'tis verily an abomination.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

I would go back to 2001 and give teenage Amanda and teenage BJ better career advice!

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Haha was skimming through this thread and that actually made me do a double-take

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Originally Posted by rubah

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

(Think of someone speaking Shakespearean English brought into the present day. Our intrepid Elizabethan would think he was in Hell)

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coo' luv, innit jes mad wot a danky muckin' there's been wif ar speakins? roight roight

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I think this comic fits nicely.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/period_speech.png

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that's kinda creepy. I honestly can't decide if I think Bleys saw that before he posted or when you just posted it. He would be the first person I'd expect to complain about inaccurate Shakespearean vernacular.

Maybe Randal Munroe is just stalking these fora, though.

I see you, Randal.

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Stalking this forum and going back in time to write a response to this discussion before it ever happened?

Yeah, I read that before I posted in this thread, but it didn't influence my post at all.

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Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod

The obvious choice for situation 1 is go back in time and invest in stocks you know are going to do well. Duh.

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That and tell my future self to pick the right courses to become a voice actor!

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You can speak to me all you want. ;)

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

Stalking this forum and going back in time to write a response to this discussion before it ever happened?

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Well, this thread is about time travel...