If you could go back in time, where would you go?

[The Dread Pirate]

Nobody knows only time will tell.

I asked it and all it's telling me at the moment is that it's 2:05pm on Tuesday 2nd February 2010

 

[gillywibble]

Probably to see the pyramids being built.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

If I could travel into the future it would be to the day George Bush Jnr. Dies so that I could give him one last thump in the chops

 

[platinum87]

Depends how do we know there aren't multiple timelines running parallel to our own. Say one person goes back in time from our timeline and alters the past does our original timeline cease to be or does it continue undisturbed on a path parallel to the one that had been altered?

How about if one person goes forward in time from our past and alters the future? That would affect the past..

 

[Treebiter]

1: Back a few months to stock up on peanut butter Kit-Kat chunkys.

2: Buy a betting results book and do a 'Biff'.

3: Kill Chris Martin's parents before he's born.

 

[burtie]

I would go back to may 15 1992 and stop myself from going out that weekend and give myself a good hard slap.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

How about if one person goes forward in time from our past and alters the future? That would affect the past..

Not necessarily as the person who left the past to come to the future might stay there in which case we wouldn't be effected. However if they came back with some technology that changed our past then we wouldn't know about it unless he was to bring proof of his alteration with him say a history book from the future of the original timeline as the altered timeline would be our original timeline from our point of view.

 

[Yas786]

For me:

Go back to when the Pyramids were being built
Go back to the time of the Crusades so i can join up and fight alongside Saladin
Go back to when the first olympics were being held

Those will do for the moment...am pretty sure theres plenty of other times id love ot go back to.

 

[Frenzy]

What squiff said..

Each time you change something that affects the future a new time line is created. I think doc brown explained it best in back to the future

 

[platinum87]

Not necessarily as the person who left the past to come to the future might stay there in which case we wouldn't be effected.

But his absense from the past, events would unfold differently..

But then you are assuming that the future occurs after the past, what if it doesnt?

 

[The Dread Pirate]

What squiff said..

Each time you change something that affects the future a new time line is created. I think doc brown explained it best in back to the future

This is all speculation really as the fundamental principle behind this theory is that a timeline exists for each being in existance individually. e.g. by altering my past so that I don't exist (say I make it so that my parents never meet) would I then cease to exist or would I continue to exist and remember my original past. OR . I go back in time and stop a world war would I then forget about the war or would I still remember it even though I've just prevented it.

 

[moawan]

The day before Microsoft was invented, and invent Microsoft.

back to 2 days before microshaft and invent it before anyone

 

[starfighter]

Back as far as the last roll over on the Lottery.

 

[I get around]

1. Shoot margaret thatcher in the face several times with a shotgun and then cut her up and feed her to pigs.
2. See the Who at woodstock
3. Shake Frank Sinatras hand

I'd add in kill the **** out of George H W Bush before he could procreate and have George W Bush but you know, only so many idiot politicians I can kill.

 

[Ziggy]

1. Shoot margaret thatcher in the face several times with a shotgun and then cut her up and feed her to pigs.
2. See the Who at woodstock
3. Shake Frank Sinatras hand

I'd add in kill the **** out of George H W Bush before he could procreate and have George W Bush but you know, only so many idiot politicians I can kill.

LOL.

 

[Blue Cypher]

Not necessarily as the person who left the past to come to the future might stay there in which case we wouldn't be effected. However if they came back with some technology that changed our past then we wouldn't know about it unless he was to bring proof of his alteration with him say a history book from the future of the original timeline as the altered timeline would be our original timeline from our point of view.

Ah Yes but who is to say thats not how the technology was invented in the first place so it was there for him to steal, meaning the "timeline" was actually being preserved instead of it being changed

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Ah Yes but who is to say thats not how the technology was invented in the first place so it was there for him to steal, meaning the "timeline" was actually being preserved instead of it being changed

From our point of view we woudn't have a clue that anything had been altered unless said hard evidence was availiable. In which case our heads would probably explode as we get into a debate on whether he did actually time travel. the only person who'd truely know would be the time travelling & altering individual/group.

 

[Participant]

I would go back in time and document platinum87's journey through life, then turn it into an award-winning comedy / documentary on how not to do it.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I would go back in time and document platinum87's journey through life, then turn it into an award-winning comedy

Surely "The Everyday happenings of Admiral Huddy" as a series would be better.

So many story arcs:

Next Door Mobster

The Mobsters Lobster

The great Dog-napping caper

ect...

 

[Jive-Zombie]

Back to when my life wasn't pitiful..