2006-07-10 06:14:36 · 19 answers · asked by terra c 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Actually, there is a paradox at work here: if you were to go back into time and change something, then the odds increase that you wouldn't have been born since everything else would change as well.
For example, let's say your parents met during the war and he was a soldier and she was a nurse. If you went back to prevent the war, they never would have met and you never would have been born. Therefore, and here's the time paradox - you couldn't have gone back to change history because you didn't exist!
If a person were to go back into time and change something, it would have to be something so personal and so minor that it probably wouldn't have any effect on the stream of time. Even then, there is always a danger.
This is probably why if there ever is such a thing as time travel, that people would only be allowed to go back as an observer and not as a participant who could change things.
2006-07-10 07:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would prevent World War 1
2006-07-10 14:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by stage_poi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have went to college right after High school so my parents could have helped suppport me and my education cost. But now having worked hard and completed my college, I think that all things make us who we are. IHaving done what I have accomplished I believe in myself more. So I might not change anything!
2006-07-10 13:20:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve eating the apple. I would say babe don't touch it.
Don't even think about touching it.
If I was alive, guess I'd marry one of Adams kids and be the starter of the whole human race
2006-07-10 14:21:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would stop Adam and Eve from eating from the Tree of Knowledge
2006-07-10 14:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by way325 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough question really, when you start thinking about it.There are hordes of things that i would like to change about myself and about the world. Can't settle on just one answer....:)
2006-07-10 15:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by anasua r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wud have brought peace around the world n stop people from making nuclear weapons n instead use nuclear power in a better form like electricity power!
2006-07-11 08:17:40 · answer #7 · answered by ---->>มาร์ญาม<<----! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have prevented the break up of the American railway system, and increased it's capabilities and uses rather than dismantle them.
2006-07-10 13:19:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would change Hitler's birth day. I would have killed in the cradle
2006-07-10 15:11:40 · answer #9 · answered by giuliano g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rid the world of it's religions...We would believe in ourselves, our societies/cultures, and live respecting eachother and the planet.
2006-07-10 13:25:31 · answer #10 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋