Time travel would be fun

[debodun]

Ever see the 1960s TV show "The Time Tunnel"? It's amazing how two people can always be transported to a critical moment in history and end up influencing it. Of course if they appeared at Aunt Tillie's garden party in 1930, it wouldn't make for a very exciting or interesting program.

 

[-Oy-]

Yes, I've read that, but it just isn't as exciting as time travel is in science fiction.

That's why we call it Science Fiction I guess

 

[IrishEyes]

I watched Outlander and that would be my luck to get stuck there, fall in love thinking I couldn't get back and then having to choose which world to live in.
I will just watch shows and be happy for the characters in the story A guy like Jamie.. who wouldn't

 

[oslooskar]

Time travel into the past would be extremely dangerous. Your mere presence there could, and would, set off a chain reaction of events that, though seemingly unnoticeable, would change the course of history. After all, history is a web of billions of interactions stacked upon each other like dominoes. Remove, or even nudge, one domino, and an entire series of events will unfold differently. What might feel like a harmless gesture could completely erase the world you came from and replace it with something unrecognizable.

That being said, if I had been able to see in 1955 what life would be like seventy years later in 2025, I would have been shocked at the large number of homeless and mentally ill people wandering the streets of my hometown. However, I would not have been surprised to see cell phones or artificial intelligence, since both were already depicted in 1950s science-fiction comic books.

 

[ohioboy]

Ever see the 1960s TV show "The Time Tunnel"? It's amazing how two people can always be transported to a critical moment in history and end up influencing it. Of course if they appeared at Aunt Tillie's garden party in 1930, it wouldn't make for a very exciting or interesting program.

I met Robert Colbert and Lee Meriwether at a convention years ago. She is one of my favorite people of all time. Had my picture taken with her, she had her arm around my shoulder, I was in Heaven.

 

[feywon]

Many years ago (for some reason) I was talking to my mother about time travel. I told her she could go back and see her family (which would have been in the early 1900s.) So she talked about seeing her mother, father, sister, and brother. I said that she would also be able to see one other person. When she asked me who, I said why yourself of course as a young girl. Well that just about blew her mind! Any of us who have read or seen time travel stories are quite familiar with the idea of meeting yourself. But to my mother, that was just an inconceivable idea.

Most time travel fiction does suggest that meeting, particularly touching past or future you could cause a paradox, they differ on the specific consequences tho.

 

[feywon]

12 Monkeys Bruce Willis
Shows how jet lagged you'd be.
It would have to do a number on your brain.

Funny you should mention 12 Monkeys. My DD recently learned there was a 4 season TV series based on that movie and bought herself the DVD set. I don't usually care for series based on movies but i found myself getting somewhat engaged with this one. We're down to last few episodes and will likely finish it on her next days off.

 

[feywon]

According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity travel to YOUR future would be possible. If you travelled at close to the speed of light away from earth for say 5 years (I don't know the maths so just throwing numbers in) then came back at the same speed - you would have aged 10 years. But RELATIVE to you the Earth and it's occupants would aged faster - e.g. 100 years to your 10. You would be 10 years older but Earth would be 100 years older. You would have travelled into YOUR future!

Actually i believe biometric tests on the Kelly brothers, twin astronauts till Mark decided to become a Senator have shown relativity of time may be more than a theory. i don't recall the stats, ratio of difference but I do recall reading that comparing something physical about them after one returned to earth from a mission supported Einstein's theory. The tissues of the one who'd been been in space had aged less than his brother's.

Of course to be sure they'd have to do more testing and studies.
And just checking that my recall accurate, i found this:

In Space, Scott Kelly Aged Slower Than His Brother on Earth - And Here's Why

 

[jujube]

The concept of time travel into the future has been around for thousands of years. I can envision Thog the Caveman grunting to his son, Thog Jr., "Boy, you let that fire go out one more time and I'll knock you into next week!" Thus, down through the ages, fathers (and mothers) have been threatening time travel to their offspring.