If you could travel in time would you go forward or back? Where and what year would you go?

it would be vertually impossible to go forward since it has not been written yet and anything you do will be what is in the past. but then there is the paradox thing of going back in time and killing one of your parental units then you would not exist but there is some hypotheses about that that says you would just start a new time line and all things would be different....
 
Greetings Youngster. Bookmarked and did a quick scroll of the link you provided. I like a short story read. Thanks.

Interesting question traveling in time. Tempted as I am to return to a simpler, happier time in my life, I am opting to jump forward. Year 2223 A.D. (aka CE) seems a good stopping point. There will remain vestiges of the current world as a touchstone.

'Interstellar' is a favorite DVD of mine. That and a few other time travel DVDs get dropped into the play tray from time to time.
 
If I were between 20 and 40 years old, I would travel back into the year 1871, the proclamation of the German Empire. From then on no war until 1914. On the other hand, with my health problems, it would be more than possible that I'd have died only some years later. No antibiotics, no anticoagulants, surgery often fatal, etc.
 
First I’d go the future but just for a quick look..to see how things turn out.
Then as others mentioned Id go to 1970..that was the year I married, maybe I’d correct a few mistakes I’ve made through the years.
I don’t want to revisit my childhood unless I had a different dad.
I don’t have one answer..there are a lot of periods in history I’d like to go and visit.
 
it would be vertually impossible to go forward since it has not been written yet and anything you do will be what is in the past. but then there is the paradox thing of going back in time and killing one of your parental units then you would not exist but there is some hypotheses about that that says you would just start a new time line and all things would be different....
That makes my head hurt! That’s why I don’t time travel.
 
it would be vertually impossible to go forward since it has not been written yet and anything you do will be what is in the past. but then there is the paradox thing of going back in time and killing one of your parental units then you would not exist but there is some hypotheses about that that says you would just start a new time line and all things would be different....
Let's just assume it were possible.
 
Greetings Youngster. Bookmarked and did a quick scroll of the link you provided. I like a short story read. Thanks.

Interesting question traveling in time. Tempted as I am to return to a simpler, happier time in my life, I am opting to jump forward. Year 2223 A.D. (aka CE) seems a good stopping point. There will remain vestiges of the current world as a touchstone.

'Interstellar' is a favorite DVD of mine. That and a few other time travel DVDs get dropped into the play tray from time to time.
Thanks for taking a look. Hope you enjoy the read.
It would be interesting to see what the world has become in 200 years. Hopefully it/we are still around.
 
it would be vertually impossible to go forward since it has not been written yet and anything you do will be what is in the past. but then there is the paradox thing of going back in time and killing one of your parental units then you would not exist but there is some hypotheses about that that says you would just start a new time line and all things would be different....
Ok, but we're just pretending.

I'd go back to my childhood on my grampa's dairy. The farther I get from it, the more I appreciate it.
 
1970. I would start my life over from 9th grade and be smarter, much smarter.
Should have said 7th grade not ninth grade. Junior high is when you are finding your "tribe" and can be easily influenced. I wish I'd taken a better path.
But I'm here being an upstanding citizen, raised 3 kids, married 45 years. I'm grateful and my life could have been way worse not matter what path I took. I think your path leads you where your'e supposed to go even if the reasons are unknown.
 
I would never want to go into the future. I love history and nostalgia... but those aren't even the reasons. "The future" is not the exciting place it was 20 or 30 years ago.

I have an unexplainable nostalgic feeling for everything from the 50s. I know I've mentioned it here before... I wasn't born until '57, so it's not a genuine nostalgia, it's totally strange but kind of comforting at the same time. Music, pictures, tv shows... all of it gives me a very strong longing to "go back"... but to a place I'd never been before. Because of that, I will choose 1950 so I could experience the decade "for real."
 
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Back to around 800 A.D. and become a Master Shipbuilder/Helmsman on Viking Raids.

A fairly safe occupation as you would be needed for any return trips back to Europe.
I'm good at sailing, navigation and reading the winds/waves.

Might be able to cement my trip to Valhalla where the after-life is filled with good times.
 
If time travel ever becomes reality, in all likelihood, we wouldn't be able to interact with anyone or change anything. But we could go to Woodstock and watch the festival, or go observe momentous events, which would be pretty cool. Of course, we can do that today to some extent by watching YouTube videos. :ROFLMAO:
 

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