Time Travel

[Code Green]

It does not do well know too much about the future. It does not do well to change the past, for better or worse. Along with the right to time travel comes the right not to time travel, and I would exercise the latter right.

[LesserChozo]

It does not do well know too much about the future. It does not do well to change the past, for better or worse. Along with the right to time travel comes the right not to time travel, and I would exercise the latter right.

But what if you going back in time is meant to happen. You wouldn't really be changing anything, just doing what you're supposed to do, i.e. what's already happened.

It does not do well know too much about the future. It does not do well to change the past, for better or worse. Along with the right to time travel comes the right not to time travel, and I would exercise the latter right.

But what if you going back in time is meant to happen. You wouldn't really be changing anything, just doing what you're supposed to do, i.e. what's already happened.

Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

[Triforce of the Gods]

Uh-oh, better brake out my timey-wimey detector that goes ding when there's stuff.

As for the topic, I'd go back to see the dinosaurs in action then check out the future a bit to see what happens after the sun dies.

[IcePotash]

I'd go to the 70's before I was born, I bet the 70's were fun.

I was going to make a Life on Mars reference but I'm not sure anyone would get it.

[Lazarius]

Travel forward in time to figure out what finally wipes out humanity, than go back in time to help prevent it.

[LesserChozo]

I'd go to the 70's before I was born, I bet the 70's were fun.

I was going to make a Life on Mars reference but I'm not sure anyone would get it.

I get the reference, but I never could get that show. Are you talking about the British one, or the failed American remake?

[-ChozoChild-]

Wait-- If we did time travel to the past, wouldn't it cause 'The Butterfly Effect'...?

If we did anything to effect the past, some events might not happen. 'Back to the Future' is a good example.
If his parents didn't love each other then he wouldn't be born... thus altering the future.

Once small thing can effect a another and so on and so forth, even just being in anther time it might affect how the others view you and react towards you. The best bet is to have an expert on the field of the period in which you want to visit, have the right accent (if any) and language and of course matter-isms and dress as that period had. If anything occurred that was remote out of that time, such as if the person time-traveling brought a cellphone, in the middle ages, lets say. The towns folk would be confused and might try and kill the person. It would be a disaster for the future events to come.

For the good of the planet though, it might be a good useful reason to go into the future or past. As Lazarius pointed out in his posting.

[LesserChozo]

Wait-- If we did time travel to the past, wouldn't it cause 'The Butterfly Effect'...?

If we did anything to effect the past, some events might not happen. 'Back to the Future' is a good example.
If his parents didn't love each other then he wouldn't be born... thus altering the future.

Once small thing can effect a another and so on and so forth, even just being in anther time it might affect how the others view you and react towards you. The best bet is to have an expert on the field of the period in which you want to visit, have the right accent (if any) and language and of course matter-isms and dress as that period had. If anything occurred that was remote out of that time, such as if the person time-traveling brought a cellphone, in the middle ages, lets say. The towns folk would be confused and might try and kill the person. It would be a disaster for the future events to come.

For the good of the planet though, it might be a good useful reason to go into the future or past. As Lazarius pointed out in his posting.

Here's my thing about that. Time travel may be possible, but changing the past isn't. If you were to go back into the past and cause something to happen that, say, prevents your birth, the effects would be instantaneous. This means that you would no longer exist to go back in time and prevent your birth. It's a paradox.

[MoonWatcher]

perhaps going back in time sets you in a separate timeline, so in theroy you could prevent your birth and "kill" yourself in that perticular timeline

but thats just doing it like a bad si fi/fantasy story

[LesserChozo]

perhaps going back in time sets you in a separate timeline, so in theroy you could prevent your birth and "kill" yourself in that perticular timeline

but thats just doing it like a bad si fi/fantasy story

Yeah, but you wouldn't really be changing anything, just following an alternate timeline. There are many different theories about that.

[Redwing]

Here's a fun theory: what if time is auto-correcting? Perhaps that inspiration you got from nowhere was actually supposed to be a time traveler from the future telling you something, but he hasn't visited you yet.... in the past. So time fills in the discrepancy with "inspiration" until he arrives in his own personal timeline.

I don't even know.

[LesserChozo]

Here's a fun theory: what if time is auto-correcting? Perhaps that inspiration you got from nowhere was actually supposed to be a time traveler from the future telling you something, but he hasn't visited you yet.... in the past. So time fills in the discrepancy with "inspiration" until he arrives in his own personal timeline.

I don't even know.

You may have something there.

[Steamlord]

Here's a fun theory: what if time is auto-correcting? Perhaps that inspiration you got from nowhere was actually supposed to be a time traveler from the future telling you something, but he hasn't visited you yet.... in the past. So time fills in the discrepancy with "inspiration" until he arrives in his own personal timeline.

I don't even know.

Maybe that idea is itself an "inspiration" from a time traveler.

[LesserChozo]

Here's a fun theory: what if time is auto-correcting? Perhaps that inspiration you got from nowhere was actually supposed to be a time traveler from the future telling you something, but he hasn't visited you yet.... in the past. So time fills in the discrepancy with "inspiration" until he arrives in his own personal timeline.

I don't even know.

Maybe that idea is itself an "inspiration" from a time traveler.

Which seems to imply that there are no original thoughts.