If it were possible to travel through time, but only in one direction, would you choose forward or backward?
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8 Comments
if it were time travel in your lifetime, neither.
Otherwise, I still wouldn’t do either, because of family.
But if I could come back at the same time I left, I would go to the future. I would go to school, imagine what they would teach. Also you could do a Back to the Future, and bet on some sports games to get a couple extra bucks to get you by.
I don’t beleive in changing the past, it is what makes us who we are today.
neither…i’m afraid of time travel. if i had to choose, i’d go forward to avoid all those accidentally-changed-the-present movie plots.
I guess I should add my two cents also.
I would probably choose to go back, only because it would be a little scary to go forward since (just from a physical perspective) it would be difficult to find a location where you could be sure that you would not materialize inside of some structure that wasn’t there in the past, or even worse, go too far and miss the end of the world…
I wouldn’t be too scared of traveling back a few years to take advantage of the stuff Dan was talking about, although I probably would choose not to because I couldn’t predict that things would end up as good as they are now.
As for changing the “present”, I would ascribe to the divergent time line theory which would explain that time progresses linearly, but there are an infinite number of “forks in the road” which represent different paths that would result from certain actions being taken, etc.
Therefore, you would travel back on the single straight line of events that you have lived through up until this time, but when you arrive in the past, that very event would cause a “branching off” into a different time line, so that any actions you take would only affect the future of the new path that you have created, rather than the original one that you came from which did not have (and is therefore unaffected by) the event of your arrival in the past. Of course, this unfortunately makes for less interesting movies.
P.S. - I got this question last night from going through a book with Emma that came with her doll that she got for Christmas. It had a series of questions designed to give the doll a kind of personality profile (does she prefer pizza or pasta, what’s her favorite band, etc.). I thought this one was kind of weird for a doll book, though.
Forward.
The last time I did it I was at Woodstock 1968 and then landed in Ventura now.
Now the hippies probably can’t remember how to use it to get me back.
Got to see Hendrix live though.
you were at woodstock?! whoa…what was it like to be the old guy there?
Well in my head I was.
Actually - this next part is true - I was living in NY that summer and my friends went and IF one of the guys got sick and couldn’t go I was up to go. But I didn’t. I was on long Island and it rained that weekend like it did this last weekend. I was in High School and was 15.
I did see hendrix at the fillmore east new years eve 69 to 70. The show was his last in ny. They had an album called ‘ band of gypies’ recorded at that show.