if you could time travel?

Question

what 1 thing in history would you change

Answer 1

i guess you mean world history, so hitler. on a smaller scale i would like to stop just one child killer and spare one mother that anguish.

Answer 2

If you could “time travel”, I’d hope you’d have the insight to understand that once you change the smallest thing, nothing would be the same. It could even affect you being born. So if you are alive, right now, why would you want to change anything? I think the problem most ppl have is finding “positive” things out of bad events. For example, let’s agree that “death’ is inevitable. Now, when your time comes, how you die, may appear tragic to those you leave behind but it wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t meant to be. For the sake of this debate, let’s say you found out when and how your death was to happen. Would you accept your fate? Would you not go to the office that day, to prevent the events that bring about your demise? What would be the repercussions be for you, for those around you. Suppose, for a moment you were a research Scientist, and in your absence form this earth, your co-worker went on to discover a cure for mental illness, and clearly if you had been there, the findings would have remained undiscovered. Would you still stay home that day? This is the same as going back in “time” and changing things.

Answer 3

You couldn't - to me more precise you wouldn't want to because of the time paradox.

Say your parents met during the VietNam war - father was a soldier and your mother lived in the town where he was stationed for basic training. If you were to go back and change something that happened before they met - let's say, stopping the JFK assassination - they might never have met. Had they never met, you never would have been born. Had you never been born, you couldn't go back and change things. See the paradox?

Any change throughout history could have far-reaching effects no matter how trivial it might seem. This is why - if there ever is such a thing as time travel - people could only go back as an observer, watching, but not interfering.

Answer 4

The theory of parallel universes is not a new thing. It is just not being widely known.

If you changed anything in the past when you time traveled, you create another time-universe parallel to the one existed. In a sense, there will be another "you" that exist in another plane of time. If you are confused with this concept, watch the movie "The One" (By Jet Li). Although this movie does not reflect the true theory of parallel universe, but it is close.

So, it does not matter what you change in the past, the current life will go on as it would. The change would be the parallel universe which could be anything that you created. For example, if you killed you father before he got married, you will not exist in this universe but continue to exist in the previous one (which explains why you could change the history).

Answer 5

If it were possible to travel back in time, I would "change" the events for 9/11 and hurricane Katrina. Make better provision and planning for saving as many more lives as I could.

Answer 6

Assume that it IS possible to travel in time.. then it MUST be possible to travel forward in time as well.. not jus back! iT's simple.. like music playback.. u can rewind or fwd the song right?
BUT u can't go fwd in time cos those things haven't happened yet! This kind of indicates that the theory of time travel is faulty.. atlst if we need facts or logic to prove it..

I suggest that instead of all of us sitting and worrying abt how we would rewrite the past, we should really focus on writing our futures!!

HOWEVER... it's a wonderful question! :)

Answer 7

If it happened, i would buy Adam and Eve a lifetime supply of condoms.
For another event though, I'd leave proof that i tell the truth (news/other events that will occur over several months in their present lifetime).. And of the demise of the future earth (proof by the way of scientific quotes from people who are alive and eminent in that present time, and scientific data that couldn't be denied) and bring the creator of nuclear the atom bomb back to this time before he has started his experiments.

Answer 8

I wouldn't stop any of the atrocities. I firmly believe that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I think we are defined by the suffering we have had. I am so glad I cannot time travel. My refusal to change events would guilt me into an early grave.

Answer 9

A Very Hard Question...
So many bad things allowed for good things to happen in the end. Or it would have happened anyway, but somewhere else or by somebody else.

Maybe 9-11. That it would have been found out sooner.
But I'm afraid then it would've happened anyway or somewhere else...

Answer 10

I would travel back to my day & time of birth and tell my parents that they can prevent me from having real bad hearing loss by taking the infant me to a chiropractor for adjustments

Also i would travel back to the exact time & date of Ash Wednesday 2 and help fight it

Answer 11

I would change very little. I would simply travel to the Meiji era japan and live there. My skills are better suited for a very simple age.

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