Forwards as far as possible would be great, but you always run the risk of appearing in the middle of some world that is literally on fire and instant death. 1 million years into the future? If that's not feasible, seeing dinosaurs would be cool. We know very little about what many of them actually looked like.
Forward would be far more interesting to me. Plus I'd rather learn something new and then be famous for inventing it than just winning a bunch of money by knowing the lottery numbers in advance.
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I don't want to go forward that much, because I have very grim expectations for the future and I feel like most likely I'd see stuff that just depressed the hell out of me.
But I wouldn't want to go backwards too much either, because I'm in a really good place in my life right now, and in a fantastic relationship. I really would not want to do something to upset that situation.
So yeah, I'd likely just go back like a month and make some sports bets and buy a couple of lottery tickets, then cash them tomorrow.
In (A), you go to the future, learn the numbers, go back in time and purchase a ticket.
Now when the lottery officials are about to draw, they read out the official stats of the lottery, instead of saying there were 10,592,659 tickets sold in the original timeline, they now say there was 10,592,660 tickets sold. That slight change is all it takes to affect the numbers are they now draw two milliseconds earlier with different results. You just wasted your time travelling.
And here I am, selling TP at 5x the price I paid for it making bank off mine.
Buy a lottery ticket for this Friday's draw today. Wait until the numbers are drawn, then go back in time to when you bought the ticket and tell your past self what the winning number is before you bought the ticket. Change numbers to the winning number and go back to the present a rich man.
Forward, maybe 100 years or so, enough to gain some knowledge that can be of benefit to our species, as well as some yet unknown scientific knowledge that will aid in convincing people to take me seriously. (Nobody believes the guy who says he's from the future and says he knows the secret of fusion power. But people may just believe the guy who says he's from the future and correctly predicts in detail what we observe when we get the James Webb online or what comes out of the as yet unperformed LHC experiments.)
I'd always like to go forward and see how we are doing.
With these kinds of questions, though, I often wonder if the answer would be different if you were limited to your lifespan. No going back to the dinosaurs. No going forward 100 years to see how it turns out.
I'd always like to go forward and see how we are doing.
With these kinds of questions, though, I often wonder if the answer would be different if you were limited to your lifespan. No going back to the dinosaurs. No going forward 100 years to see how it turns out.
I think I'd still stick with going forward.
Would you are told the number of years you can tie jump up front before you make the decision? For example, you're 35 years old. You know you can only go back 35 years but are you told in advance how far into the future you could go? In other words how long you will live.
eg. What if your choice was go back up to 35 years in time but you can only go ahead 2 years.
... I would probably waste the day trying to get in bed with my high school sweetheart.
I am surprised it took us to the second page to see this reason surface for the first time.
Yeah, obviously, backward or forward, coming back to the same moment in time time, you can get rich either way, so it's a wash, really.
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I wouldn’t want to go back and make myself or children not born and if I see something terrible I can attempt to prevent without knowing that every action I try to do to prevent it is actually the cause.
If there is no intervention possible I go back because it would be utterly depressing to be confined to a density whether good or bad.
Go back to Hamburg in 1962 to watch the Beatles play at the Star-Club. Watch the most driving rock 'n roll band in the world play hopped up on amphetamines and ambition and reflect on what the future had in store for them.
Then I'd push McCartney in front of a bus, return to our timeline, and see if a middle-aged non-musician could take the pop world by storm writing and releasing Beatles song from memory.
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It is possible to travel forward in time, you just need enough energy.
Not a very good business opportunity though since each device (probably a space ship capable of a significant portion of the speed of light) could only be used once in one direction. Or I guess the occupant could use it more, but it doesn't benefit you as the business owner.
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I wouldn’t want to go back and make myself or children not born and if I see something terrible I can attempt to prevent without knowing that every action I try to do to prevent it is actually the cause.
If there is no intervention possible I go back because it would be utterly depressing to be confined to a density whether good or bad.
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Would you are told the number of years you can tie jump up front before you make the decision? For example, you're 35 years old. You know you can only go back 35 years but are you told in advance how far into the future you could go? In other words how long you will live.
eg. What if your choice was go back up to 35 years in time but you can only go ahead 2 years.
Sure. I could see that. Before you make the choice, you 'know' (somehow) that you can only jump a max of X years into the future. I'd likely still go forward. I've been in the past already. I'm curious about what the future holds.
Sure, man. One day - forward or backward, anywhere you want, any moment in time you want to be at for one day.
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Would you are told the number of years you can tie jump up front before you make the decision? For example, you're 35 years old. You know you can only go back 35 years but are you told in advance how far into the future you could go? In other words how long you will live.
eg. What if your choice was go back up to 35 years in time but you can only go ahead 2 years.
I have no desire to find out how long i'm going to live. Just imagine the anxiety build up when your due date gets close. Or all the time you would spend trying to stop your death. No thanks.
