would you either fix what happen to you or would you fix some thing that happened in the world
2007-08-27 16:17:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You may be able to observe, but you can't fix anything. It would result in what's called a paradox.
You go back in time, change something, the world evolves differently-no time machine is invented, you can't come back to change it-so you didn't.
Lot's of examples of paradoxes, so observation may work but not involvement.
2007-08-27 16:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by jim1965_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two trains of thought, that you could do something in the past to change the present (i.e accidentally kill your grandfather so you would cease to exist but if you did that how would you be able to be able to travel back and do it) That's known as the paradox theory.
The other main theory is that by travelling back in time you automatically become part of any event so, no matter what you may try to do to change the past won't succeed as history is already written in stone.
2007-08-27 17:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by kwilfort 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, time travel is very common in my time.
(circa 3230 AD)
Families travel to different eras in time for holiday vacations, much as people travel to popular tourist destinations like Jamaica or Disney World in your present time.
It is quite fun!
I cannot believe that I am actually using an antique computer with a keyboard to answer this question. It's so cool!
Anyhow, teams have already traveled back in time to change events and circumstances that resulted in disasters.
Many terrible events have already been fixed, like the global-wide Thermonuclear World War III of 1964 that killed over 57 million people in Russia, Europe, parts of Asia and North America.
The USSR and the USA were all but erased from the map. Only Australia, South America and Southern Africa were spared.
Disaster Teams from my time traveled back and fixed the incidents that triggered the aggression so the war never occurred. Sadly, it was necessary to assassinate President John F. Kennedy to restore balance and avert the deaths and horrible suffering of millions.
They have also changed events to avoid widespread disease pandemics and world-wide famines that had devastated whole nations, peoples, and cultures.
A biological medical experiment gone awry near Tokyo in 1996 released a deadly virus that killed the entire populations of Japan and Okinawa along with parts of China and Korea. Fortunately the Disaster Teams staved off this tragedy before it occurred too.
(I speak in past tense, even though the disasters never came about )
Since they changed things before they happened, you have never heard of them.
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2007-08-27 16:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jail Tail 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would fix something that has happened in the world rather than my self.
2007-08-27 16:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by lisa_7702 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would fix something that happened to me. If I were to fix something in the world, it may affect whether I was born!
2007-08-27 16:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by the_dragyness 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you did change the past you would have created a parallel universe and the more you change the past the more parallel universes you create infinitely. You would be stuck in parallel universes all your life and never return back to your original universe. Yeah its kinda sad but it avoids paradoxes.
2007-08-27 18:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by Agent Fox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt fix anything, since that would result in a completely different future that may or may not be beneficial.
Ide rather not take that risk.
2007-08-27 16:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by 2447 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everything is connected in some way. To change one thing you may change the other as well.
2007-08-27 16:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would visit the dinosaurs. =)
2007-08-27 16:39:06 · answer #9 · answered by cam p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋