Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.
Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean
I would probably look at a few interesting years I am aware of, but after a while I figure it would devolve into “I dunno man, what the fuck was going on in 1111?”
The middle of the carboniferous, imagine forests growing for millions of years and wood not decaying. There should be mountains made of wood.
i’d go to the first nuclear bomb test, after it went off i’d say they just created a rift in time, and i came back to stop them from destroying the world through paradoxes….
Just make sure you don’t accidentally become your own grandparent.
I’ll visit past me and leave some letters that contain useful information. You know, don’t trust those people, avoid doing this mistake, know yourself etc. would be interesting to see how that timeline diverges from my own.
Actually. now that I’ve opened this door, might as well try influencing world history on a larger scale. How about I visit certain key moments where a dangerous person almost died, but survived to cause massive harm later down the line. Would be really interesting to see how history plays out after nudging Hitler a little bit closer than to that suitcase. History is just full of special moments like that.
I wouldn’t be a passive observer. I would actively change things to see what happens.
BTW, I believe in the many words interpretation of quantum physics, so all possibilities are equally real and they all exist simultaneously. No matter how hard you try to fix things or how badly you mess things up, that disaster branch was already there, always will be.
If you like fiction (and Stephen King for that matter), you should read 11 22 63. Main character goes back in time to change past events and things… sort of work out. It has a cool take on time travel and course of events in general, I was a big fan of reading it.
There is also a mediocre tv adaption of it as well if you’re not into fiction, but I didn’t finish it.
Some other books that handle time travel in fun ways and play with explicitly making changes to the past.
- Asimov’s The End of Eternity (might have gone without saying)
- Jack Finney’s Time and Again (read it as a kid, so might not actually be that good, but it’s illustrated which is fun!)
I would give John Hinckley Jr some shooting lessons.
I’d check out and record all of the Biblical/Qur’anic big moments at a prudent distance, probably (barring the times of Noah, lol). Then I’d die in the time machine as I try to come back to my time and share with others cause God wants belief in the unseen and through uncertainty, maybe. 😅
I wanna visit the Indus Valley Civilization and see what they were about. If I’m not changing history I’m just gonna be a temporal tourist, hosting a livestream where I ask Romans where the best fast food is at and stuff.
The end of time and the edge of the universe to have a good meal at the restaurant.
Go back to before multicellular life evolved so nothing will bother me
I would like to see the Hot Club de Paris with a shot of absinthe and a big fat joint
I’d love to see the future, because I really am hopeful for humanity to move beyond all this bullshit to some post scarcity utopia :)) Failing that, I’d probably go watch Phineas Gage’s big moment, because, woah.
