If you could visit any decade in the 20th Century
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For one trip I'd probably go back to the 60's and the 70's, check out the styles, what was going on what not. See Star Trek and Star Wars first run and also "rescue" the lost Doctor Who serials and when I got back I could get maybe some monetary compensation for them or just some popular recognition for bringing them back.
Whoa. I never thought you and I would agree on a subject, but you did a very good job of succinctly articulating why I would choose the 40s!
The 40's (probably after WWII)
See Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, get to dress up and not look like a freak, read some good Sci-fi, ahh...
See Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, get to dress up and not look like a freak, read some good Sci-fi, ahh...
think i'd go to the 50's, see the old rock and roll.
failing that the 30's would be intreasting too
failing that the 30's would be intreasting too
I can see you as a war worker at the home front. Squiggy mooning people in posters ...
Someone photoshop that!
Actually, meeting yourself in the past in an attempt to change the future just wouldn't work - History™ has a habit of course-correcting itself, and whatever has happened, has happened... no going back to a save game to get the happy ending there.The only benefit would be use of modern knowledge to cheat one's way in the past, or the joys of trying to change history.
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... the late 80s, and visit myself when I was a child.Although I don't know how I'd have responded at that age had someone said to me "I am you from 20 years in the future. I have travelled back in time to meet you."
For instance, I recall in my childhood some strange old man walk up to me and say to me "Hi there, I'm you from the future. I have something important to say to you right now... hey, where are you going? Come back! Hello...!"
My mother always told me never to talk to strange old men. Now THAT's what I call historical course-correction.
OK, so that didn't happen (I think) but you get the idea....
Me, I'd love to visit the 80s again - it was a great decade all things considered.
I've never had that dream, but I have had a guided tour of our solar system inspired by reading the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy while sick as a dog and delirious, back in jr. high. Very vivid, still sticks with me to this day just like I just dreamed it. There are things inside Jupiter you really wouldn't expect from a gas giant. At least, I didn't.The idea of this thread came from a dream I had a few days ago. There were these students from the year 1899 that needed to be taught about what to expect in the coming century, so we were assigned a decade to make a lecture about it and teach it to these students. I was assigned the 1980s.
Yeah I'm weird
Oh, and if I can't manipulate the stock market, I'll stay right here, thanks. :P
That reminds me of something I should have mentioned in my 50's post. It would be awesome to see post-war Las Vegas when the mob was running it and the rat pack, Elvis and others were performing there.
Actually, meeting yourself in the past in an attempt to change the future just wouldn't work - History™ has a habit of course-correcting itself, and whatever has happened, has happened... no going back to a save game to get the happy ending there.The only benefit would be use of modern knowledge to cheat one's way in the past, or the joys of trying to change history.
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... the late 80s, and visit myself when I was a child.
Well that wouldn't really be my motive -- to change the reality of today. Just to meet my past self for my own pleasure.
Anyway, I don't think this was meant to be a scientifically accurate question, just an express your preference question.
But since you brought up feasibility: I have presented arguments on trekbbs before about about time loops that would inevitably be created if ever a time machine is built -- as a simple extension of chaos theory, considering how butterflies cause monsoons etc, you would implicate the universe in a paradox, because effects of your time travel are not localised, but would spread out and amplify in exactly the same ways, and some of those consequences would pass through the time machine in the present, because of contamination, so sealing the loop.
We've definitely got to get you to watch LOST someday.Actually, meeting yourself in the past in an attempt to change the future just wouldn't work - History™ has a habit of course-correcting itself, and whatever has happened, has happened... no going back to a save game to get the happy ending there.The only benefit would be use of modern knowledge to cheat one's way in the past, or the joys of trying to change history.
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... the late 80s, and visit myself when I was a child.
Well that wouldn't really be my motive -- to change the reality of today. Just to meet my past self for my own pleasure.
Anyway, I don't think this was meant to be a scientifically accurate question, just an express your preference question.
But since you brought up feasibility: I have presented arguments on trekbbs before about about time loops that would inevitably be created if ever a time machine is built -- as a simple extension of chaos theory, considering how butterflies cause monsoons etc, you would implicate the universe in a paradox, because effects of your time travel are not localised, but would spread out and amplify in exactly the same ways, and some of those consequences would pass through the time machine in the present, because of contamination, so sealing the loop.
I'm finally succeeding in getting my mother interested in the DVDs I got her. Not sure how long she'll last...But yeah, the butterfly effect (so-called of course). Of course, would your very presence in the past be an actual event that happened in the Real past (thus changing nothing)?
But there's a loop! Information goes in one end, comes out the other, flows through time and back in again.
That information passes through an infinite number of times. So it has to stabilize within the time loop. Which is supposed to have an issue with entropy. => time loop stabilises with an infinitesimal duration.
=> time machine appears to not work, although there is a possible time displacement at the quantum level through tiny fractions of a second, where there is no entropy change.
Well I don't know
Temporal mechanics give me a headache too. I think I'll ask the Doc back in 1985.
I think I'll ask the Doc back in 1985. Similar threads
