If time machines were invented, would you go to the future or past, and why?

Question

This question is for all you people interested in time travel, and anybody else is welcomed to answer this question to. I always wondered which would be more fun, to go back or forward in time. If you go way forward in the future, then chances are you could be flying cars in the air like planes, which would be so awesome. If you go way back in time, then you can see what dinosaurs really looked like and well that would be quite the adventure. I'd probably pick the past because of that, what do you think people?

Answer 1

As a female I would have to go forward. It's been a short time here that women had any rights and I would hate to go back to being someone's property, with no rights of my own. Living was a pretty brutal experience and the further back you go the harder it was to just stay alive. I can only hope it would be better in the future altho' it would be really neat to go back and see history happen. . .and dinosaurs and saber toothed tigers. . .but give me the future and hope that man has learned how to live on this planet and that if I went forward that the earth would still be hospitable for humans.

Answer 2

Yes I'd love to see how the Earth was during the reign of the dinosaurs, or in the days of early hominids. I would really like to see our future and how mankind/technology evolves in the future though. We know a lot about the past but virtually nothing about the future, especially what the world will be like in 100, 1000 or even 10,000 years time.

Answer 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18

i think your questions are very standard.
Every one talks about the flying cars and the dinasours.

so I'll give the standard answers

I'd go back into time to when I was a 8 year old end explain what I should do in the future with women and money and school. I'd tell myself to buy stock in microsoft google and yahoo.


If I had to go into the future, I'd want off this planet.


OVERALL though, I'd rather go sideways through time.
to other moments that didn't happen but could have happened if I had made a different decision in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA

I'd keep going through them until I found the moment in possible time (the 6th dimension) where I was a multi billionaire with a army of playboy bunnies and I was really buff.

Answer 4

I look at humans and see that we as a whole are moving in only one direction, which is downhill without brakes.

Every successive generation takes the bad of the last generation, and tries to surpass it to shock everybody (generally speaking of course).

I got to say I would be afraid to go to the future; I'd be afraid I wouldn't survive whatever nuclear holocaust or World War or whatever else we will most likely have created.

I'd go to the past when there weren't that many of us.

Probably go the Olympics of the past (or some other sporting events) and gamble on outcomes I already know. Nothing like a little money in my pocket to reaffirm my belief in humanity (my belief being that we're all out of our minds but money makes it feel better).

Answer 5

I would not go either way, unless I were equipped with an excellent protective life-support system and was guaranteed the ability to return exactly to my starting time and place.

This is because of something everyone else forgets to include in the scenario or completely ignores, but it would be fatal not to prepare for it.
As the earth is rotating and orbiting the sun, and the sun is moving around the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is moving in an unknown direction at an unknown velocity through the space-time continuum, it is likely that someone who projected him/herself into either the future or the past would re-enter space-time someplace so far from the earth that one might not even be able to find our sun, let alone the earth. One should not anticipate finding oneself on earth, but should be prepared to find oneself isolated and far away in some unknown location in space. If one's intent were to witness or do something on the earth at the end of the forward or backward travel in time, I believe that person would not be able to carry out that intent!

Time travel is a wonderful dream, but those who envision it forget that what we call "here" is continuously moving, and "here" won't be "there" when you get "there."

Answer 6

MATTER: The Other Name for Illusion

What is explained in this book is an important truth, which has surprised many and changed their perspectives on life. This truth can be summarized as follows: "All events and objects that we encounter in real life-buildings, people, cities, cars, places-in fact, everything we see, hold, touch, smell, taste and hear-come into existence as visions and feelings in our brains".

We are taught to think that these images and feelings are caused by a solid world outside of our brains, where material things exist. However, in reality we never see real existing materials and we never touch real materials. In other words, every material entity which we believe exists in our lives, is, in fact, only a vision which is created in our brains.

This is not a philosophical speculation. It is an empirical fact that has been proven by modern science. Today, any scientist who is a specialist in medicine, biology, neurology or any other field related to brain research would say, when asked how and where we see the world, that we see the whole world in the vision center located in our brains.

This fact has been scientifically proven in the twentieth century, and although it may seem surprising, it necessarily implies answers to two questions; "If our lives are visions created in our brains, then who is it that creates these visions? And who is it that sees these visions in our brains without having eyes and enjoys them, gets excited and happy?" You will find the answers to these two important questions in this book.




Time is a Perception Too


At this point in the book it has been explained that matter, thought to be an absolute existent, is actually nothing but a perception-an image experienced by every person in his brain. And it has been shown how important this reality has been for the increase of fear and love toward God, the spread of spirituality and good morals and the collapse of materialism.

There is another concept similar to matter that materialists have considered eternal and absolute-time. But like matter, time is also a perception and is not eternal; there is a moment when it was created. This fact, which has now been established by scientific proofs, was revealed in several verses of the Koran.

Answer 7

I would go to the past to change some things to have a better present

Answer 8

Definitely past, though not to see prehistoric events. I would just go back and try to fix everything that I haven't done right and hope for better results. :)

Answer 9

The past. So that I slap myself for marrying my ex husband!

Answer 10

i would go to the past and find myself a handsome duke