Time Tourists

[JAK®]

And thinking fourth dimensionally makes paradoxes possible how?

I wonder what kind of mental leaps you just made to think that post was in any way disagreeing with your point.

People who can't grasp time travel aren't thinking fourth-dimensionally. It was a joke, and now you've ruined it

 

[Shemtov]

So now it's "whatever happened always happened" is it? I don't buy it. You're suggesting a time line that is totally unmovable and is set in stone, thus suggesting that everything we do is always going to happen no matter what we try to do to stop it. So if I go back in time, get the black death, bring it back and wipe out humanity, woops, always going to happen no matter what happens cause no one can go back to stop me getting black death.

LIES SIR!! LIES!!

I am not suggesting that this is true. It is merely a conjecture. I am simply asking:
if you could travel in time, and there are no repercussion to what you do, because you will always be stopped if you try to changed the past cause you already didn't change it.
Heck, it even be that you travel back to solve the Mary Celeste mystery. Guess what- you do solve it. But it's because of a time machine malfunction. Because of you.
But, if you had traveled back before that, and nothing went wrong, you would have observed the malfunction. Because it always happened. You always traveled back and caused ye people to disappear.

 

[Shemtov]

I'm bumping this thread because I think this needs to be discussed more.

 

[ChickenScratch]

The idea of time travel is cool. Then I start thinking of all the diseases and viruses I'm not immune to throughout history or the antibodies I carry from a modern immune system into the past. For all I know the flu I had a month ago could whipe out entire countries.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Man, there are so many times and places I'd want to see.

1. Various times in the Mesozoic, including right before the asteroid impact.
2. I'd want to see prehistoric man hunting Ice Age big game.
3. Witness various religious places during supposed miracles of many religions, to see if they really happened the way it is claimed.
4. The discovery of America by Columbus.
5. The American Revolution.
6. The French Revolution.
7. The burning of Washington DC, 1812.
8. Visit my ancestors. I have been studying genealogy and there are several "mysteries" in my family that I would like to know more about.
9. Visit times in my own life.

 

[Suirou]

I would love to buy some clothes from the 1980's.

Before anyone says that would be a time paradox, how do you know that we aren't living in a paradox now?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

In order...
1. Gaslit Victorian London, around the time of the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes stories appearing in The Strand magazine for the first time
2. Feudal Japan. Would love to see samurai warfare in person. And see the original Japanese castles in person.
3. Ancient Rome, specifically around the time of Julius Caesar
4. Harlem, NY in the 20s for the jazz scene
5. France late 1700s (as long as I don't lose my head)
6. New York City during the 1980s. Would see my childhood stomping grounds through adult eyes and maybe visit all the people I've lost like my grandparents, babysitter, etc

 

[ChickenScratch]

I'm with you man. NY has changed so much since the 90's. I miss my old, dirty, hookers on 42nd NY. I wish I could go back to the NY of my childhood, 80's NY. Sometimes rewatching Watchmen I can almost imagine what it would be like.

 

[Shemtov]

Bump

 

[bored]

I would go back in time, retrieve a young Theodore Roosevelt, and set him loose upon the present. GOODBYE TERRORISM.

 

[Doctor Evo]

You're ignoring ye premise; I know it's hard to accept, because it goes against science, but this is all theoretical.

It doesn't go against science. It goes against logic.

 

[Sawyer]

I'd go back to the time of the first man.

And I'd kill him on sight.

Humanity has destroyed this beautiful planet.

 

[Soapy]

I would go to a point in the future when man has discovered or invented a way to achieve immortality and then I would live forever. Assuming humanity is even still around then.

 

[The Slang]

There are lots of things I'd like to learn about the history of earth.

I'd probably go see what that Jesus guy was all about, and also test a few other religious claims (global flood, Jewish slaves in Egypt etc)
I'd like to directly observe earlier stages in the evolution of humans and other modern animals.
I'd have to see a living dinosaur obviously, lots of them in fact.