Firstly thanks Shrike. Personally I would like to go to the renaissance era and study swordplay. Possibly taking summer vacations in medieval England, to get some instruction in chivalry, and knighthood. And naturally bring back a few nice pieces of weaponry. That is if I decided to come back.
meessa would go to save oto gunga from the evil trade federation. Then meesa would rewrite the script of my movie so meesa would have a gooder part!
The do say the reason merlin (the wizzard) was able to predicit the future with such accuracy is becuse he went backwards through time while the rest of us go forward. Perhaps id go back to see the knights of the round table, wouldnt stay long tho, all those people who dont wash!!!, think the reason i wouldent stay long is self explanatory.
Benji That kind of reminds me of an ESP study that some people haven't undertaken yet. Which people you might ask... well they wwill know when the future comes Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Great thread Cris Assuming I would be safe and able to skip through time to observe only, and not affect anything, these are the places and times I'd like to go to. Watching how the pyramids were made. Finding out how those lines in the ground (I think at Nazca?) that from the air are drawings of spiders and birds etc., I'd like to find the answers to all the questions in Chariots of the Gods, like how those gigantic statues on Easter Island came to be. I'd like to witness the formation of a crop circle, (these days they're getting more and more elaborate). I'd want to skip through time and watch the evolution of man. I'd like to watch things that were happening in the time of Jesus, what he was all about and how the bible came to be written. I'd like to have a look at the dinasaurs and watch how the continents formed, dividing up the land and producing different animals on different continents. I would like to have gone to the moon with the astronauts; a view of the stars from space would be amazing, so would looking down and seeing our own planet. If I could interact without causing any damage I'd love to talk to Nostradamus to try to compare what he was 'seeing' to history up to the present time. I'd have loved to talk to Carl Sagan. Lastly, for now, because it's 3.40am and I'm getting very sleepy, I would have wanted to be with the liberating soldiers at the concentration camps helping the surviving prisoners to safety after the war ended. After all they had been through can you imagine what you would read in their eyes? That must have been something. Thanks for starting a really great topic. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Teri
I guess my list is short and sweet. I would love to know about the remains of that underwater road near Bimini, Who made it? How did it come to be? What peoples did it and how did they do it? I would know Rome. Civilization, politics, people, trade methods, military methods, the lives of the gladitors and their training. I would know the history and beliefs of the Aztec, Maya, and the Pueblo cliff dwellers. There are also several of Teri2's items of interest that draw my attention.
You didn't say movement in space so the first thing I'd do is make sure my spacesuit was not leaking. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Ok, OK so theres movement in space as well. Spend a couple of years studying the Buddha, Lao Tse, Christ and Mohamed. See if Bacon did make that talking head. Drop a few hints to John Harrison, talk to Farraday. Give Nostradamus the real dope then try and drag Sir Isaac away from his religious tracts back to the maths texts (give him a calculator, as one SF writer sugested) Oh so much time so little life!
I could go see Hitler, Einstein, blah, blah, blah.... What would really spark my interest is to go to the spot in time before the creation of universe. To try and find out how did that particle of infinite energy and no mass come into existence. Because I suppose it had to be created by "something" and that something had again to be engineered by something else, and so on. The very concept of existence seems to be a neverending spiral, loop or whatever. I would travel drastically before the birth of universe, before beginning of time so to speak, and see what "is" "there".
Hi Picard, welcome aboard! I agree that would be something if we could find that out. I still wonder what the universe is expanding into. And what about the concept of infinite density of a black hole? What if science is completely wrong about everything? All these questions, and no one to answer them. Happy Tuesday, Teri
Thnx for the welcome These are all interesting thoughts, but I suppose we should stick to the main subject. But it would be great to see what "world" was like before existence even existed for example. Besides, I'm almost certain there are people who belive they know the answers to these questions. Are they right? Not likely. But one can never know for sure.
I supposed you'd have to be very specific about which times you went to and how much time you spent in each time as it were, i think id have to see the fall of the roman empire, that must have been something to witness, i love to go and find out what happened abord the mary celest, i wouldent tell anyone honest Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I go watch hitlers speach as the nurenburg rallys then id pop back a few years later to see weather the russians did get him. I might have said roswell in the 1940's but for me that has already been explained, i suppose id like to take a UFO and close encounter histroy report and see how many aliens have visited or how many freaks there are on this planetPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!. Id be in dallas for JFK's assination and see first hand what happened, then going to london to meet the cray twins in there hayday. I go to waco just to see who fired first, id go and see if ossma bin ladden did order the wtc attacks, i find the truth from every major conflict of the past milenium, then with the cold faced irony of it all id proberbly laugh then die contented.
you guys get really complicated, don't ya? Well, all I'd want to do if I could travel back in time is meet people that I admire now (and not know personally) before they became famous and/or died. This would include my grandparents, scientists like Albert Einstein and Issac Newton, great artists like Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, Renoir, and Monet, great music composers like Bach, Mozart, Chopin and also rock musicians like Neil Peart (with his purple cape prefferably Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ), Mexican latin rock band Mana's drummer Alex, Sting, and drummers Jeff Porcaro and Buddy Rich. Let me see, let me see....who else....hmmm....I'd also visit the first Olympic games and meet the first gold medalists Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! and I can't think of anyone else right now but I'm sure I'd remember once I got on the time travel "machine"Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
damn, how could I forget... WRITERS, famous writers like Hemingway, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, man....too many to name.
This might not be relevant to the topic. But, about all those people you would all like to meet. How would you approach them? They were all busy and famous. Not like you could just march into their close proximity and engage them in a meeting ritual.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Time travel If I were granted the power to travel backward in time by some power granting entity, I would travel back to the year 1099AD. I would roam the streets of Damascus while sweeping through the cries of prostitutes and roadside vendors as if their solicitations were cobwebs pregnant with tempations unnamed. I would watch the dustdevils wrap sand around my imagination in lazy circles as the sun set between my opium-heavy feet as I lie on a cushioned sofa made of lebonese timber. I would invent the flashlight, thumbtacks, and moonpies.....
The past has no interest for me. If you can go back in time, you can go in the future. That's where i want to go. I would make a stop where we find how to travel to other star system. The ultimate goal of science being to mathematicly modelise the entire Univers, i would make a stop at this very precious monment in time and stay there !!! Imagine, a time where we understand everything about everything !!! This is where I belong. Stef
I would go back steal an colt m1911a1 and an m14 and a bunch of ammo for both. then I would go into the future buy a space ship and go exploreingPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Knowing everything about everything would have it's moments at first. But I fear such a day. Just imagine. Nothing left to explore, nothing to learn. It's the ultimate boredom which, my friends is a fate worse than death,hell even
Yes, I agree with Stef, I hadn't even thought of the future...... where do we end up? Can we go to other galaxies, other planets? and I don't think we'd ever find out all the mysteries of life in this universe simply because it continually evolves, so if you started at one end, worked your way through, the beginning would be all different again. Good one Stef. Cheers, Teri
But... All I will do is quote Stef: "understand everything about everything". If it's possible to understand everything about everything is another topic and I don't know the answer to it.
