Time Travel!

[Shlup]

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

[LunarWeaver]

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.

[Værn]

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~

[blackmage_nuke]

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

[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.

[Darkswordofchaos]

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

[blackmage_nuke]

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.

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.

[Darkswordofchaos]

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

[Citizen Bleys]

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.

[Darkswordofchaos]

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

[rubah]

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

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

[NorthernChaosGod]

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

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

My brain hurts after reading that.

[Agent Proto]

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

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

I think this comic fits nicely.

[Citizen Bleys]

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

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

In faith 'tis verily an abomination.

[Meat Puppet]

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

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