If you could time travel...

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..just ONE time, and you can either go into the future, or into the past...

Which way would you go, how far, and why?

You're not allowed to take anything with you other than yourself and what's in your brain.
 
Kill Hitler when he was a baby, or invest money and become the richest man in the world?
 
Being that the world is going to hell in a handbasket... I'm going back... I figure 1949 is a nice sweet-spot ...
 
Buy Walmart stock and Microsoft stock.

Go back and cruise Route 66 in 1952 in a '49 Ford sedan like my parents did on their honeymoon.
 
Gee, without the sports almanac....

Still going back and I agree the late 40s seems like a good time. Kodak, IBM...picking stocks would be easy, you just use the "did I hear about them before now" strategy.

Lots of really cool surplus airplanes then too.
 
THOMAS JEFFERSON! Because I'm in love with him!

But I think I'd just like to exchange letters, not actually meet him. Or if I had to meet him, I'd take him flying. In his day, the advent of air balloons was just taking effect and he was know to be highly intrigued by the science behind them. Could you imagine taking a powered flight with Thomas Jefferson?? Boy. That would be cool.
 
Stocks? Hell, just go back to the day before the last super lottery.
 
fiveoboy01 said:
..just ONE time, and you can either go into the future, or into the past...

Which way would you go, how far, and why?

You're not allowed to take anything with you other than yourself and what's in your brain.
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Wait a minute....

Are we naked?
 
I'd go back to the late 50's, early 60's. Air conditioning was becoming common, there were some really cool cars, and airplanes available, and the Progressive movement (Beatniks) was in its infancy, and not yet relevant, nor very influential. Men were men, and not yet feminized Metrosexuals.
 
Anthony said:
I'd go back to the late 50's, early 60's. Air conditioning was becoming common, there were some really cool cars, and airplanes available, and the Progressive movement (Beatniks) was in its infancy, and not yet relevant, nor very influential. Men were men, and not yet feminized Metrosexuals.
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That would probably be the winner. Late 50's early 60's was a time of high hopes and great advancement. It would be fun again to watch the Apollo effort.

Hey, we could all buy our airplanes NEW. :rofl:
 
Do we get to come back, or it's a one way trip?
 
Sac Arrow said:
Wait a minute....

Are we naked?
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Hey, it's your story:)

can you come back to the present is a good question. I hadn't thought about that. I'm inclined to say yes, but you can't bring anything back with you except? Again, what's in your brain.
 
I wouldn't.
 
FlySince9 said:
who'd want to come back...? not directly, anyway..
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Because if I went back in time, started a trust that names me as a beneficiary in numerous companies that have made it big, then when I come back to the present, I have all this money waiting for me.

If I stay back there, I have to wait, and wait, and wait for it (the money growth) to happen.
 
The past is all fun and games until you get sick or injured and they haven't invented antibiotics yet...

That said, I'd like to see ancient Rome. The Republic, not that mess Julius Caesar created.
 
I'd go back in time and write all the hit songs before the real artists did.
 
Surprised no one mentioned back to the late 30s/early 40s at about 20 years of age. Knowing what I know now, I'd love to have been given the opportunity to fly a fighter or bomber during that era, even if it meant an untimely death.
 
I might just go back 20-30 years so I can slap the s**t out of myself at a couple key points.
 
Distance future, just because I'm curious how it all turns out.
 
Just realized my dads birthday is in a couple days.

Go back to the day before my dad died so I could tell him I love him.
 
go back and grab the monkey envelope before that hideous cowboys logo corrupted that poor lil fellow's travel home.

and also cause I didn't do blow that day, so I'd just wanna make things right.
 
Zeldman said:
Just realized my dads birthday is in a couple days.

Go back to the day before my dad died so I could tell him I love him.
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Was just about to post the exact same thing. I wouldn't need to tell him anything. Would just like to see him.

On second thought, I'd rather have my daughter go back in time so that he could meet her. He'd have really gotten a kick out of her.
 
2015 years ago to see the first days of the Earth.
 
fiveoboy01 said:
..just ONE time, and you can either go into the future, or into the past...

Which way would you go, how far, and why?

You're not allowed to take anything with you other than yourself and what's in your brain.
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Middle Kingdom Egypt, keep Pharoah from using the food stores to enslave the rest of Egypt with the food stores laid aside for the foretold famine. That's where humanity went off track.
 
I already travel into the future, one day at a time. And, I take everything with me. It just does me no good!
 
If you went back in time and caused something to happen such that you weren't born, would you go *poof*, and disappear?
 
Bill Jennings said:
If you went back in time and caused something to happen such that you weren't born, would you go *poof*, and disappear?
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Classic time travel paradox. Of course there may be an infinite number of parallel universes so you might only not be born in one.
 
Bill Jennings said:
If you went back in time and caused something to happen such that you weren't born, would you go *poof*, and disappear?
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Depends on whether you believe a paradox can happen or not. There are some schools of thought that it's impossible, others that think it is. There's quite a few stances on if time travel were possible what actually would happen.

Personally, I think it it possible, if you throw an abs() in the time dilation formula and break the speed of light. I also think breaking the speed of light is possible, we just don't have the knowledge to do so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, someone will chime in with "it's impossible!" and I say "it's impossible with our current knowledge, but we don't know what we might discover in the next [number] of years."
 
I've given this a lot of thought, and I don't think that I would go anywhere. I can't think of a time that would be better for me. I'll just stay here, and see what happens.
 
Go back and do things things all over again. Might save a little more money.
 
There was this sort of dorky girl in high school people ingnored who turned out really hot.....
 
Bill Jennings said:
That would probably be the winner. Late 50's early 60's was a time of high hopes and great advancement. It would be fun again to watch the Apollo effort.

Hey, we could all buy our airplanes NEW. :rofl:
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Yep....I agree with this one! Probly mid-late 50's would be where I would goto and i'm not worried about coming back. F this S@#t.....
 
Of course time travel just isn't possible, at least according to my experiments. Using a binomial expression, what is the chance that the actual probability is 100% if there have been more than 1000 trials and the number of successes=0 - (P=1, N=1000, p=0)?

In my experiment, I will be picked up by a time machine by my future self. We will travel to the future where I will purchase a time machine. I will them travel back to the original time and pick myself up. After delivery of my past self to the future, I'm free to go anywhere.

But alas...it didn't work again. It's 9:23am in Dallas for my airline client. And my future self is not walking in the door with a grin saying "buddy have you got an adventure in front of you"...
 
bflynn said:
Of course time travel just isn't possible, at least according to my experiments. Using a binomial expression, what is the chance that the actual probability is 100% if there have been more than 1000 trials and the number of successes=0 - (P=1, N=1000, p=0)?
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Flawed logic. If that were the case, life would have never arose in the universe.
 
bflynn said:
Of course time travel just isn't possible, at least according to my experiments. Using a binomial expression, what is the chance that the actual probability is 100% if there have been more than 1000 trials and the number of successes=0 - (P=1, N=1000, p=0)?
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There is another set of rules that trumps our knowledge, and physics. How arrogant are we to think that there are possibilities, and concepts in the universe that we don't realize, nor as humans we may not be able to comprehend. The entire creation of the Universe goes against our basic concepts of conservation of matter, and conservation of energy. I don't know how you reconcile that.
 
EdFred said:
Flawed logic. If that were the case, life would have never arose in the universe.
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So time travel is just so insanely difficult that I haven't been able to do it? Not buying it. Abiogenesis is repeatable when we try to do it. Time travel, by my experiments, has never been successful yet.

Anthony said:
There is another set of rules that trumps our knowledge, and physics. How arrogant are we to think that there are possibilities, and concepts in the universe that we don't realize, nor as humans we may not be able to comprehend. The entire creation of the Universe goes against our basic concepts of conservation of matter, and conservation of energy. I don't know how you reconcile that.
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I reconcile it because it's never been successful. Scientifically, that's empirical evidence that can't be trumped by hypothesis. If you can prove my experiments wrong, I'd be thrilled. But you aren't proving facts wrong using hypothesis.
 
bflynn said:
So time travel is just so insanely difficult that I haven't been able to do it? Not buying it. Abiogenesis is repeatable when we try to do it. Time travel, by my experiments, has never been successful yet.
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What experiments? You may die in the next five minutes thereby never being able to attempt these experiments. Time travel isn't going to consist of you sitting at your desk thinking "Hmmm, lets see if I can time travel today."

Also, perhaps time travel has happened at some point in the future, history was changed, and it has since been outlawed. Or any other number of possibilities.
 
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