Time Travel/Time Freezer

[Old Manus]

I'd play cricket with myself

[Captain Maxx Power]

I'd travel forward at least a thousand years. I imagine it will go something like this;

CMP: Wow, sure is nice here
Future Person: Hi there
CMP: Hello, you speak English?
Future Person: Yup, it's the world's language now
CMP: Cool. Nice place you got here
Future Person: Can't complain. Clean fuel, endless food supply, no one gets sick
CMP: Nice to hear. So the whole global warming thing...
Future Person: ...few extra hurricanes a year, nothing we couldn't handle
CMP: Thought as much...quick question, what was the last Final Fantasy game?
Future Person: Two hundred and sixty five
CMP: Nice, is it good?
Future Person: Nah, it went downhill after one hundred and fifty four

[ReloadPsi]

I'd have a time freezer, but I wouldn't bother with time travel itself due to the risk of creating time paradoxes.

Having frozen time, I would try and invent the electric bookshelf.

[Quindiana Jones]

I'd go back in to the end of the dinosaurs, then freeze time and kill them all. LONG LIVE MAMMALS!

In fact, when I'm 84 I'm going to go back in time and gave my younger self my time machine. I then used that time machine a few years ago and killed all the dinosaurs. I then went back (technically forward LOL) to the date that my 84 year old self will come from, and will give him back the time machine. Then I will transport my younger self back to my own younger time zone.

My goodness, it's hard to be grammatically correct with all this time lark.

[Rengori]

I'd freeze myself until the year 2999.

[The Ceej]

Okay. Here it comes. A situation where it's actually relevant.

I would use the time machine to go back to 1999 to tell myself who I am. I would force myself to come out to myself and tell myself it would be in my best interest to come out to the world. But you know. Only if it were relevant because it's not that big a deal.

Then maybe I wouldn't be in the position I'm in today.

And yeah. There's nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel.

[Meat Puppet]

I would go back in time and abort Beethoven.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

1980: Put some shares into Microsoft

[ReloadPsi]

I'd freeze myself until the year 2999.

Oh sure, if you want to be awoken in a period where the whole world's at the mercy of some weird alien race called the "Drakkons" who go back in time to create wacky time paradoxes while continuing to terrorise our own world, effectively leaving it in the hands of some dude in brown fatigues to go back in time himself and create more friggin' paradoxes by not only fighting these aliens but killing anyone else that actually belongs in Earth's history that resists him. Go ahead.


Note: Obscure NES reference.

[The Ceej]

I would use the time machine to go back to 1999 to tell myself who I am. I would force myself to come out to myself and tell myself it would be in my best interest to come out to the world. But you know. Only if it were relevant because it's not that big a deal.

Then maybe I wouldn't be in the position I'm in today.

Yeah. I just remembered something. I was brainwashed by my religion at the time to believe it was wrong. I'd have to take myself into the present and show myself the way my life is now. I'd have to break my brainwash before I could ever teach myself who I am. It would be a difficult job, but it would sure as hell be worth it. I need to be true to myself and what better way than to be true to my past self. It would so make my life better now.

Only problem is, when you go back that far and change something that big, who the hell knows that kind of changes that would make in my life? I don't want to remove people from my life that I care about simply because I never met them now. I guess I could take certain people with me to be sure that I knew them then and will still know them in the new present. This is just hard.

[The Unknown Guru]

With a time machine, I would go back to the 60s, then live through them, then I would go to the 70s and live through them, then i would go to Japan's Edo Period and live through it.

With a time freezer, I would actually have time to think about things before I say them. That would have a positive impact on my life.

EDIT:

There's nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel.

There isn't anything to prevent going forward, but you can't go backward. To go back in time, you would have to exceed the speed of light, which is clearly impossible.

However, a "time portal" can be created between two eras. It goes something like this:

In one time period, take one end of a stabilized wormhole (just assume it's possible) and load it onto an intergalactic starship capable of going, say, 98% as fast as light. Leave the other end on Earth. Have that ship take off, fly around at full speed for a few years, and land on Earth again. Because the end of the wormhole on the ship was flying at 98% of hte speed of light for a few years, time slowed down for it, and the ship carrying it would have landed probably about 1,000 years later in Earth time. However, the end of the wormhole that stayed on Earth would've kept going in Earth time, making it possible to travel between the era the ship took off in and the era the ship landed in by going through the wormhole.

Of course, this can't take you farther back in time than when the "portal" was created.

[Rengori]

I'd freeze myself until the year 2999.

Oh sure, if you want to be awoken in a period where the whole world's at the mercy of some weird alien race called the "Drakkons" who go back in time to create wacky time paradoxes while continuing to terrorise our own world, effectively leaving it in the hands of some dude in brown fatigues to go back in time himself and create more friggin' paradoxes by not only fighting these aliens but killing anyone else that actually belongs in Earth's history that resists him. Go ahead.


Note: Obscure NES reference.

Very obscure, I was trying to be obvious with a Futurama reference. Maybe I should've said New New York somewhere.

[oddler]

Stopping time is a sure way to end the universe.

[The Ceej]

EDIT:

There's nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel.

There isn't anything to prevent going forward, but you can't go backward. To go back in time, you would have to exceed the speed of light, which is clearly impossible.

<url ="http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/timetrav.htm">Why Time Travel Is Possible</url>

Physicists have found the law of nature which prevents time travel paradoxes, and thereby permits time travel.

[Rengori]

EDIT:

There's nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel.

There isn't anything to prevent going forward, but you can't go backward. To go back in time, you would have to exceed the speed of light, which is clearly impossible.

<url ="http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/timetrav.htm">Why Time Travel Is Possible</url>

Physicists have found the law of nature which prevents time travel paradoxes, and thereby permits time travel.

The intarnet has never been wrong before.