If you could travel back in time ( one way trip )
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I would love to go back to the time before the last ice age (i.e pre-10,000BC) to see if there was any truth to the ancient Sumerian texts about the annunaki and with that advanced ancient technology. With a little global travel it would be amazing to see the true purpose of the great pyramid, what was happening at Gobekli Teki, etc. Maybe even search for atlantis!
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I have been thinking this too but as a 2 way journey. I would maybe go to the time of King Henry VIII as I have been watching the tudors atm. I would go there after the sweating sickness though as I wouldnt want to die straight away.
Or I would go back in time a lot and go to ancient greece or something...
I also think I wouldnt want to change history as that could end up making everything different and I might not be born etc So I would just live quietly I think and observe. Not very exciting...
Or I would go back in time a lot and go to ancient greece or something...
I also think I wouldnt want to change history as that could end up making everything different and I might not be born etc So I would just live quietly I think and observe. Not very exciting...
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The event of the draw itself would be the same, only the result would probably be different.
They would be the same as you see it hasnt happened yet if you go back in time. History would not change itself unless you changed it and tampered with the numbers. It would just be the same setting and same result and the same people would win + you obviously which would then change how things went. Its pretty simple. Just cos you went back in time wont change things unless you yourself changed them.
Assuming I could win with those numbers, i.e. as mentioned the time line is set and those numbers would come out regardless, then yes, but didn't say it wouldn't change anything, I'd be rich which is the key point
But how can you go back and kill someone to prevent "X", when the reason you traveled back to kill said person, and the reason they became of note over the course of history was actually "X". If I killed Hitler in 1920, why would it come to 2015 now, and decide; "I'm going to go back to 1920 and kill a slightly racist amateur Austrian artist called Adolf Hitler" there's no point of reference to enable anyone to do that, it creates a paradox.
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His plan was to go back in time with only the original winners name and city, find a telephone book and hunt all possible winners down.
They should make a movie about it
I've invented a time machine
As per OP......
The 70's when LSD was flowing everywhere.
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How so?
You'd have to hang around for a while, since the usual estimates for the year he was claimed to have been born in are between 6 BC and 2 BC.
It would be useless as an answer to the question anyway, since it's a matter of faith. Finding out when he was born (assuming he was) is irrelevant to whether or not you believe he was the son of a god. You'd see a human baby. What you believed is a different thing entirely. I think it's probably true that a person probably called Jeshua probably preached a variant of Judaism that became Christianity. That doesn't mean I believe it's the true religion and all that goes with that belief. If I knew for a fact that he was born, it would change nothing. Why would it? At most, I might be able to find out what he actually said (as opposed to what he's now claimed to have said, which might or might not be the same thing) and I might be able to form an opinion as to whether or not he believed it himself.
Because the hypothetical situation is that you have travelled back in time, not that you have travelled to a different reality. As a result, the common assumption is that the only changes are the ones that result from your actions. If that's not the case, then there's no point to this hypothetical discussion because it becomes "If you could travel to a different reality with no idea what it would be like, which one would you chose?", which is a completely meaningless question because choice is an irrelevant concept in that scenario. If you can't have any idea what you're going to, you can't make a choice.
For a one-way trip, I'd do the recent lottery thing too. I like reading about history, but I certainly wouldn't want to live in it. So I'd want to live here and now, but be rich. I'd also want to minimise unexpected changes resulting from my time travel.
There are other issues, though. If you go back in time within your own lifetime, there will be two of you. That could cause problems. Would the current you remain missing? Presumably - if you've gone to a different time, you've gone.
Because the numbers would be fixed as it's the same time line continuum! Holy flux capacitor fail, did you never see Back to the Future 2?
What your talking about is not 1 person traveling back to a previous point in an existing time line, but rather rolling back the entire universe to that time.
You couldn't wind back all time and then go back with it, because the future timeline would need to exist for future you to exist and therefore come back. Unless your suggesting that an individual could remove themselves from 'time', roll it back and then reinsert themselves while retaining the knowledge gained from a section of time that has never existed any more? And thats just silly.
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I would go back to the 90's and go to some raves, because I missed out the first time.
I wouldn't want to go back too far because you have the two practical problems that you wouldn't be able to communicate with anybody because language changes, and you'd probably die of a disease you have no resistance to pretty quickly.
I wouldn't want to go back too far because you have the two practical problems that you wouldn't be able to communicate with anybody because language changes, and you'd probably die of a disease you have no resistance to pretty quickly.