where and when would you go if you could time travel?

Let's say just for giggles and grins that you were able to kill Hitler. Do you really believe that WWII would't have happened? I've been worried about changing the timelines for just a few people. But if were to happen, I realy think history would be altered greatly. Life as we know would probably would probably be totally different.
 
Time travel has always interested me immensely, and I'd love to travel back in time to when my Grandparents were living in England, and see them as they went about their daily lives.

I'd love to know how things were for them as children, and how life then was much simpler although one may say harder by far.

I've often had what I would call "flashbacks" to a scene in what I seem to "know" as a street in New York City, and I see men standing in front of doorways that I can't quite discern.

This comes to me at times without any voluntary thought on my part...and I wonder...could it be a past life of mine, or just what is it that keeps drawing me to that particular scene?

I would love to experience time travel, but not to change anything, just to experience it.
 
To all,

i love to hear you all talk about if you could time travel and it is interesting of some of your places and time you would tavel.
well i hope you all do't forget the past for it will help you in the furture.
peaple try to forget the past and they make the same mistakes the second time.
as for the furture. at times i would like to see and then again i am scared of what i would see.

lowboy
 
Ann, I think you had a wonderful idea. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than the same thing you just mentioned. I had to put my Grandmother in a nursing home last year. As I was going through her things I came across several boxes of very old photos. I loved them. But I too would like to see them as young lovers, with their whole lives ahead of them. But ultimatly time won. It always has and always will.
 
Long time no see lowboy. Well since you asked and I had plenty of time to think. No pun intended. The height of the roman empire has always been on my mind, so that is where I would like to go if I could time travel. The great lecture halls, the baths, the gaming arenas (before lions), the brothels...but seriously that time period has held some answers that I would like to learn first hand.
 
I've changed my mind. My Grandmother died today. I'd like to go into the future three or days from now. Just to get them behind me..
 
Kevin - I am sorry to hear of your news, just be brave and don't be afraid to let the tears flow, it really does help and make sure you treasure all those memories
 
I would have to say that I would take a complete log of lottery numbers and give them to my grandfather sometime back in the forties. He was a very smart man and would have invested all the winnings wisely thus giving our family a great life.
 
I confess if such a thing were possible, I'd love to see EXACTLT how the Egyptians actually built the Great Pyramids, how the ancient Druids erected Stonehenge, and what the purpose is behind all those drawings on the ground in South America that only visible from the air.

I'd also like to take a few "pops" in and out of the several hundred million year period during which the Birds slowly evolved from the Therapods. It's probably the hottest topic in Palentology these days.
Actually, I could spend "several years" (of my life anyway) studying all of Palentology and the process of Evolution since the Cambrian explosion.

Heck, watching the formation of the Earth itself seems like a fun thing to do.

Lee
 
Now this is an interesting question that I ask myself often. I would travel back to my birth and arrange for my own adoption, raising myself to be in the best possible position to do major time traveling projects. You know, the best shape, expert in history, and the necessary survival skills to promote success for a woman. After all, a woman's lot in the past was not an easy or a safe one. Then I would go to a couple of favorite periods: 1066 - 1087 (william the conqueror), Late 13th century (richard the lionhearted), early 19th century (England/France during the reign of Napoleon).
 
Think bigger people travel back in time to learn from the best for we do not learn that the best are the best until they are gone.
Art, science, any interest you may have could be learnt. To travel through time to alter the past and create a paradox may hurt more then are saved. You may change suffering for one time to another. What has happened must stay in our past no matter how painful , for the past is a part of all of us. Only after everyone agrees that this should happen should it happen. When I say everyone I mean everyone that would be effected past , present , and future. Sometimes the event will make or change morals of every one in the future. Hitler was a good example to remove him from our history would the morals change in the USA on how to deal with the homeless, race problems , and so on . It is hard to say .
Then of course is the time traveler the best to change our history? Each person has their own agenda on what should be changed. The moral question will come up when changing history and that is "If we save 6 million from dieing in the second world war and as a result we kill 1 in the future is it worth it?
To me it is worth it , however what if we save 6,000,000 in the past and 5,999,999 die in the future as a result of this change in the time stream? Is it worth it? To me it is not worth it. I am not the one to chose who dies or who should be and who should not.
However i still want to travel through time.
 
What if you were meant to fix the past? Like something happend that wasn't meant to be, and you're fated to fix it. Just a thought.
 
Time travel is a hope, even if it may not possible, which makes life better. just like lottery for some people.

I remembered watching a show a few years back where the male lead dropped a coin in a well & wish he could go back in time and get his girlfriend to reunite with her father before her father died. His wish was granted 3 times. Each time with different endings. The first, he still couldn't nake it in time(traffic jam..guess he still haven't learn from his "past mistake". The 2nd, he change route & his car broke down & still couldn't make it. The 3rd & final time, he get his fren to help to rush his girl-fren to the site. By twist & turn, his girlfren make it in time but end up being his fren's girlfren instead.

I would rather believe time travel is possible...bcos it gave me hope. If I could travel back in time, I would go back to my university's days to rectify all the mistakes i had done then.

I give my blessing to all those scientists & hope that maybe one day, time travel may come true afterall(just like cloning).
 
Karen,

Your scenario here is advocated by some as the theory where each event "creates" it's own unique timeline.

It leads to what is called "multiverse theory".

We could do an entire thread on this topic in itself. SOME (a minority to be sure) Quantum Theorists actually hypothesize this.

Lee
 
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