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If you had a time machine were would you go and what would you do?
Thanks for the post i enjoyed reading itWell it does rather depend upon whether you wanted to go back or forwards.
I think I would mostly be drawn to the idea of going forwards. The trouble with that of course is that:
If time machines had been invented then the people of the future would know about them and time travelers.
Arriving in the future would almost certainly give one at least a slight if not severe culture shock. Things are unlikely to be as we anticipate them, so you would need to procede with caution just in case you did not break some new law or social convention - for example a time traveler from the 1940s arriving in our time would think nothing of lighting up a cigarette inside a public building.
Therefore it would be very easy for the people of the future to recognise visitors from their past. They might look on them with either distain or amusement.
Going back into the past would present its own set of problems. Could you change history that of course has been a common theme of SciFi. The danger is that you might do that without intending it. What if you made your trip back into the past shortly after becoming infected with a dose of Flu. You might not yet be feeling sick and to a modern human population your disease might be a minor inconvenience. It would not be so clever however if you started a plague that wiped out most of the Roman Empire.
So maybe it would be safer to only visit the early past before human civilisation. That way your effects are less likely to be wide ranging. Mind you then again there is always a chance you might pick up some long since extinct microbial nasty and bring it back to our time where it could flourish.
These are just a few random thoughts to going along with.
Some years ago I heard a Radio Play which concerned a couple of guys being interviewed as to why they had blown up a time portal generator. They said they did it to collapse the tunnel into the past which another member of the project team had entered. They had discovered he was going back into the past to prevent the trial and execution of Jesus. To ensure success he had taken with him a machine gun and several thousand rounds of ammunition.
ya i agreePersonaly, I would destroy a time machine. As tempting as it would be to go back and see different things in history, there would also be the temptation to change things. Like to prevent JFK from being shot.
Who knows what consequences that would have on history
Thats why its sci fi its about the fantasy of it who knows what god has planed in the future for us but its always fun to wonder thats what makes sci-fi greatIf really have a time machine... why no future people come to here??
I think it is not possible to create a time machine..
Actually preventing the shooting of JFK might have had a fairly minor effect on the grander scheme of human history.Personaly, I would destroy a time machine. As tempting as it would be to go back and see different things in history, there would also be the temptation to change things. Like to prevent JFK from being shot.
Who knows what consequences that would have on history
Well of course the classic time travel paradox that is often quoted is more basic than that.Again, the fantasy/sci-fi aspects aside, nothing could actually be changed, even if it were possible to go back in time. If you go back, historically speaking, you've already been there. Say tomorrow I hopped in a time machine, and tried to prevent the JFK assasination. Obviously, I fail, since he was already assasinated, and I had gone back in time. The only way any "changes" can be wrought is through some sort of parallel universe sort of thing.
What I would do is probably go back to when the Nation of Israel first came to existence as a people under Moses, so that I could see exactly what he taught, because that would put an end to much of the controversy between the christian churches today.
Wouldn't the effort be somewhat in vain, if you didn't also visit the time of Christ's ministry to see what He taught, exactly? His interpretation of Moses would be a bit more relevant to Christianity at large.