You're a time-traveler. Would you go to the past or the future?

Chet said:
Since the future is unknown, I would not want to go there because I suspect it would be worse than the present. There is way too much conflict now, and with an ever increasing world population, it's bound to get worse.

Back in time, I would accompany Lewis & Clark on their journey across America to the Pacific Ocean. I love exploration and seeing things for the first time. Imagine sleeping under the stars before before light pollution.
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Murrmurr said:
It's possible there are certain parameters that limit time travel, but I'll never say time travel is impossible.
Maybe we have been visited by people from the future. Who would know?
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Gaer said:
How do you know it's impossible?
How do you know we haven't been visited by people from the future?
Or people from the multiverse?

If you were going back in time, would you tell anyone?
If you KNEW THINGS, would you or could you tell anyone?

Just messin with ya!
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If time travel really were possible, don't you think someone would have gone back in time and assassinated Hitler in 1923?
 
JimBob1952 said:
If time travel really were possible, don't you think someone would have gone back in time and assassinated Hitler in 1923?
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Consider the famous grandfather paradox. You're a time-traveling assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather. So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry 18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser blaster, but what happens when you pull the trigger?

Think about it. You haven't been born yet. Neither has your father. If you kill your own grandfather in the past, he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the trigger, thus negating the entire string of events. That's called an inconsistent causal loop.

On the other hand, there's the consistent causal loop. This theoretical model of time travel is paradox free. According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.

Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation. Going back to the time-traveling assassin, this time-travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Maybe a bird poops on it at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe Think of it as separate sandboxes where you can build or destroy all the stuff you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time-jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.

Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
 
Murrmurr said:
Consider the famous grandfather paradox. You're a time-traveling assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather. So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry 18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser blaster, but what happens when you pull the trigger?

Think about it. You haven't been born yet. Neither has your father. If you kill your own grandfather in the past, he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the trigger, thus negating the entire string of events. That's called an inconsistent causal loop.

On the other hand, there's the consistent causal loop. This theoretical model of time travel is paradox free. According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.

Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation. Going back to the time-traveling assassin, this time-travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Maybe a bird poops on it at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe Think of it as separate sandboxes where you can build or destroy all the stuff you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time-jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.

Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
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Wow! You REALLY put thought into this! Wow!
 
Murrmurr said:
Consider the famous grandfather paradox. You're a time-traveling assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather. So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry 18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser blaster, but what happens when you pull the trigger?

Think about it. You haven't been born yet. Neither has your father. If you kill your own grandfather in the past, he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the trigger, thus negating the entire string of events. That's called an inconsistent causal loop.

On the other hand, there's the consistent causal loop. This theoretical model of time travel is paradox free. According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.

Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation. Going back to the time-traveling assassin, this time-travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Maybe a bird poops on it at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe Think of it as separate sandboxes where you can build or destroy all the stuff you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time-jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.

Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
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Not confused. Not convinced either.
 
This thread brings to mind a novel by Stephen King. 11/22/63 A man discovers a "rabbit hole" That sends him back to 1959. No matter how long he stays, when he returns to the present, only 2 minutes of real time has passed. Anyway, he stays until Nov. 1963 to try to prevent the assassination of JFK. Interesting story. It was made into a mini series on HULU
 
Gary O' said:
I'd go back, in a heart beat

But

This rig of mine don't have reverse

So

Five years forward
See what I'm still able to do....if they let me (whoever 'they' are)

Can't see me going much further

I mean....2525? If man is still alive?


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sadly Evans never got to find out if he's''still be alive''..because he died in '18...but Denny Zager is still around making custom guitars in Nebraska..so you never know... he might get to see 2525...if he's still alive...:LOL:
 
Murrmurr said:
Consider the famous grandfather paradox. You're a time-traveling assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather. So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry 18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser blaster, but what happens when you pull the trigger?

Think about it. You haven't been born yet. Neither has your father. If you kill your own grandfather in the past, he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the trigger, thus negating the entire string of events. That's called an inconsistent causal loop.

On the other hand, there's the consistent causal loop. This theoretical model of time travel is paradox free. According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.

Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation. Going back to the time-traveling assassin, this time-travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Maybe a bird poops on it at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe Think of it as separate sandboxes where you can build or destroy all the stuff you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time-jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.

Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
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You know your stuff.
 
I don't see too much good anytime soon in the future..the way things are looking anything past 50 years is a wish...
There are other outs, how many countries are working on getting off the planet, a few hundred years and just maybe another place to be.
:alien::alien:o_O:love::ROFLMAO:
 
Murrmurr said:
Consider the famous grandfather paradox. You're a time-traveling assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather. So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry 18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser blaster, but what happens when you pull the trigger?

Think about it. You haven't been born yet. Neither has your father. If you kill your own grandfather in the past, he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the trigger, thus negating the entire string of events. That's called an inconsistent causal loop.

On the other hand, there's the consistent causal loop. This theoretical model of time travel is paradox free. According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then, that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the professor stole the theorem to begin with.

Then there's the post-selected model of time travel, which involves distorted probability close to any paradoxical situation. Going back to the time-traveling assassin, this time-travel model would make your grandfather virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction. Maybe a bird poops on it at just the right moment, but some quantum fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

But then there's another possibility: The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe Think of it as separate sandboxes where you can build or destroy all the stuff you want in it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time-jaunt would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to your original sandbox.

Confused yet? Welcome to the world of time travel.
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Stop, stop... my head. :) 🤯

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This is one of my all time favorite topics. In fact, I just edited a story for a lady who posts online videos. She was taken back in time and loved the story's outcome. But she will not have it published and will only share with friends.

As for me more than anything in this world, I want a TARDIS:


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I know where my first stop will be: years ago I had a dream in which I died and went to a Heaven in the form of a large and comfortable library. There at the front door stood none other than Mark Twain who greeted me with a big smile and said he had been expecting me for some time. Evidently, he knew I loved good coffee, pointed to a dispenser, and said "grab a cup and come on in. We have lots to talk about." We talked about his book Practical Jokes With Artemus Ward which is the funniest book I ever read. I was laughing so much that I woke up laughing! Knowing this, I will stop by his house about a year or so before he passed on. I'm a rather funny guy and I'm sure we'll both have lots of laughs.
 

You're a time-traveler.​


Every time I go into town on the bus, I'd switch back to the 1950s, the fare only cost a penny back then, I'd save a fortune. :)
 

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