Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:53 am
Nothing except way back in the past interests, and knowing my luck, I'd catch some funky disease or something. (That's pessimistic, but whatever. 
) I wouldn't travel to the future because I want it to be a surprise.
So...I'm happy right here.
) I wouldn't travel to the future because I want it to be a surprise.
So...I'm happy right here.
Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:30 pm
Well, I voted the past but I probably show have voted the future. To choose the past, I would tell myself to not choose certain paths that I did. To the future, I would just like to see where I end up being on the path that I am.
Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:56 pm
thats the problem with time travel though.
can you actually change anything?
surely not, because simply traveling through time breaks an immutable law of physics (predeterminism)
however, given thats its theasible for time travel to happen, its more likely that instead of traveling in time, you are simply travelling to a universe that exists in a point in your past.
(for every possible outcome of every possible decision, and every possible moment of each of those, there is a universe for it)
so, you couldnt change a thing.
and the futur is even worse, you are seeing but one possible outcome (ALA death showing scrouge (S?) his gravestone)
future it is, i wants me some Kull warriors.
can you actually change anything?
surely not, because simply traveling through time breaks an immutable law of physics (predeterminism)
however, given thats its theasible for time travel to happen, its more likely that instead of traveling in time, you are simply travelling to a universe that exists in a point in your past.
(for every possible outcome of every possible decision, and every possible moment of each of those, there is a universe for it)
so, you couldnt change a thing.
and the futur is even worse, you are seeing but one possible outcome (ALA death showing scrouge (S?) his gravestone)
future it is, i wants me some Kull warriors.
Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:02 pm
Past.
I now have the urge to go into the 80's and watch MTV. Odd. Then again, the 80's always have been my favorite time period for some reason.
I now have the urge to go into the 80's and watch MTV. Odd. Then again, the 80's always have been my favorite time period for some reason.
Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:30 am
Past. I'd wanna see the Ice age, ancent Greece, or America before the Europeans came.
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:13 am
Past! I'd love to go relive history...I'll see the future eventually 
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Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:14 pm
Morganeyrie wrote:Past. I'd wanna see the Ice age, ancent Greece, or America before the Europeans came.
you do know the original inhabitants of america are european right?
french (or rather, what would be france) if memory serves.
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:23 pm
Neither. But if I have to choose, I'd choose past. Knowing your future will make life boring, 'cause you already know what is going to happen. Yes it might mean you'll be able to change it buuut I'd rather wait for it to happen. 
Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:51 pm
Setekh wrote:Morganeyrie wrote:Past. I'd wanna see the Ice age, ancent Greece, or America before the Europeans came.
you do know the original inhabitants of america are european right?
french (or rather, what would be france) if memory serves.
I knew that, I just forgot. I meant the colonists. And I thought they came from Asia, not Europe, but I bet you're older than me and know all that history stuff.
Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:21 pm
Past. There's something I would dearly love to change and sod everyone else
Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:30 pm
The past. I'd like to learn more about history by actually being there. Not in wars or anything- that doesn't interest me- but in how people went about their lives. Regular, average people. Peasants, nobles, whoever.
And I wouldn't want to change anything, because, in my opinion, first of all, you couldn't. If you changed something, wouldn't everything be the same? The past happened, and if you were there and had changed something, well- okay, I'm starting to confuse myself, so I'll shut up about that.
But the main reason I wouldn't want to change anything in the past is because I feel that as messed up as the world is right now, I wouldn't want to take the chance of changing things. If I, say, stopped Anne Boleyn from being beheaded, or something, then think of how different the world would be. Butterfly effect, people. The smallest thing can have the biggest impact. I could severely mess things up, and the world could be worse. And yes, maybe I could go back and fix it, but what guarantee is there that that would work? If I told Henry the VIII that if he beheaded Anne, he'd die, why would he listen to me? Elizabeth might not have been crowned- Anne might have given birth to a boy if she lived.
What happened happened.
And I wouldn't want to change anything, because, in my opinion, first of all, you couldn't. If you changed something, wouldn't everything be the same? The past happened, and if you were there and had changed something, well- okay, I'm starting to confuse myself, so I'll shut up about that.
But the main reason I wouldn't want to change anything in the past is because I feel that as messed up as the world is right now, I wouldn't want to take the chance of changing things. If I, say, stopped Anne Boleyn from being beheaded, or something, then think of how different the world would be. Butterfly effect, people. The smallest thing can have the biggest impact. I could severely mess things up, and the world could be worse. And yes, maybe I could go back and fix it, but what guarantee is there that that would work? If I told Henry the VIII that if he beheaded Anne, he'd die, why would he listen to me? Elizabeth might not have been crowned- Anne might have given birth to a boy if she lived.
What happened happened.