Time travel

But to the past? No, I don't think this will ever be possible.
I have absolutely no evidence to support it and I can't recall the source. But I seem to recall reading that theory suggests travelling backwards in time might be possible in the extreme gravity between two circling supermassive black holes.
 
Haha I think the dilemma here is which invention do you pick first and how do you filter them in so you aren't burned as a witch? Is bicycle too radical, maybe skateboard first? :D

Okay, skateboard it is. Then a halfpipe. See how quick them folk can build a fire when they see me perform an aerial 720.
 
Since every day is a race against the inflaton field and the next large extinction-event meteor (sometime) hitting earth, Id inform them of those more important two facts. Nobody would care of course, as neither are short-term rewarding or comprehensible then or now.
 
Coppering ships. Would have been a huge benefit during the 16th century, when wooden ships were vulnerable to shipworm and the Portuguese pioneered the route to Asia.

Another achievable one: demonstrate the superiority of rifled barrels vs smoothbore. That technology existed early on, but didn't see mass adoption for centuries.
 
Who said anything about large scale. I merely stated I would invent it, not manufacturer it.

I thought you intended your post as an answer to the question in the OP that started this thread and is the point of this thread:

[..] If you could travel back in time, say 500 years, given your current knowledge/experience/whatever, what could you impart on the world that might improve it?
For example, would you know how to re-create/re-invent something that we use today that the world of 500 years ago could use to its benefit?

How would your single piece of toilet paper improve the world of 500 years ago?
 
I thought you intended your post as an answer to the question in the OP that started this thread and is the point of this thread:



How would your single piece of toilet paper improve the world of 500 years ago?
:D lolling outloud at this thought process.

"CHAPS, WATCH ONE WIPETH THEIR BUTTOCKS WITH THIS PAPYRUS - I AM INVENTOR!"... as everyone else wipes their ass with leaves.
 
You betcha.

They might be impressed by your display of wealth. Paper wasn't cheap in 17th century England. But they'd probably think you were a nutter with far more money than sense or that you were mocking them.

[..] Go back in time and shoot a video of how they built the Great Pyramids in Egypt :D

That would be a long video. Also, can you imagine how much a camera drone flying around would freak out ancient Egyptians working on the building site?
 
That would be a long video. Also, can you imagine how much a camera drone flying around would freak out ancient Egyptians working on the building site?

We don't know who actually built them. Some theories say the Pyramids were built by the Atlantis civilization using levitation.

Because ancient Egyptians during the pharaohs age didn't have the technology to build them.
 
We don't know who actually built them. Some theories say the Pyramids were built by the Atlantis civilization using levitation.

Because ancient Egyptians during the pharaohs age didn't have the technology to build them.

OK...I'll bite. Are you serious or is this a joke that I'm not getting?
 
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