Sheldon Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 When most think of time travel, they have unimaginative notions of travel to the future to sport scores hoping to profit from such knowledge in their return to their present or revisiting the past in hope of changing or “correcting” their past mistakes. There are few with a little imagination who would visit the past so they may witness, say, the signing of the Magna Carta, hearing the Gettyburg’s Address, or seeing Caesar crossing the Rubicon; at the other temporal end, visiting the future seems exciting for some especially if they can learn of the promising amazing technological advances, medical cures, alien planets discovered and explored, or even solutions to ancient problems. The truly imaginative would capitalize on what time travel affords them — time . . . unrestricted time. My meaning is not limited to exploiting opportunities that otherwise can be solved by having multiple versions of oneself. How many occasions had we wished we could be at two places at the same time, on account of scheduling conflict e.g. attending my best friend’s premiere play one-night only performance versus a chance to dine both with the Pope and with the US President at some grand gala? It would be fun attending Harvard College and Princeton as an undergrad at the same time. Admitted high school seniors must make a choice, and once made will always wonder, “what if…?” With a time machine, they can spend a week at Harvard and the next at Princeton; a lot of work to be sure, but they can afford it because they have time. But let’s go further. Imagine, if you will, living a life in the times you want rather than being restricted in the “interesting times” you happen to born. For example, enjoying your teen years during the early 2000s, while living out your twenties during the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, making money during the corporate gold rush of the 1980s, and your retiring years in the United States of the 1950s. I suggest in a controlled way unlike the chaotic jumping about as in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. What I have not worked out, for myself at least, is how I would combine the two experiences, living both non-linearly and in multiple time periods. I assume, the time periods must be separated by at least a generation so my lives do not overlap and possibly interfere with each other. How would you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david490811 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 The ramificatioon of Time travel has not been fully assessed , let say you go back and witness the signing of the Magna Carta and just before you travel back to your own time, you get into a issue with one of Charlemagne guards because you may look out of place and are bested in a fight, Gettysburg after the signing one of the Confederate soldier soured by the loss decide to take his last Yankee, which would happen to be you with a 50 caliber musket ball or the example about spending your 20's in the 60's what if you make a child in the 60's that will be older than you when you return and you did not have any children prior to departure. Anytime you travling in time you would strongly need to consider the people you might meet! including your temporal doppleganger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Curious, did not answer or address the question posed. Forwarding hypothetical problems with time travel is not the topic of discussion. The question is, what more can a person with time travel than merely travelling to & from either past or future. If possible, then I would love to spend my holiday time off abroad the Enterprise D and my late summers help editing the Stephen & Virginia Woolf's literary magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david490811 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Even more curious is that you would not consider when posing a scenario of Time Travel, then the forums would be more suited for Science Fiction than Science fact instead addressing the apparent paradoxes that one might face traveling in Time. Suggestion is to change the site to addresss the writing Issac Asimov and Robert Heinlein or Harriet Beecher Stowe since any mention of a hint of scientific conjecture seems to be fround upon being "inapproprate" or not a topic of discussion. I tend to place more emphasis on tangable things as opposed to fantasy and abstractions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 There are way too many other threads addressing what you are choosing to discuss. My interest is an attempt to introduce a new topic and solicit, what I hope, are imaginative minds. You have a time machine, or means of time travel. Where do you vacation, live, choose to romance. Paradoxes, theories, problems are for other threads. If as you wrote, "I tend to place more emphasis on tangable things as opposed to fantasy and abstractions," Is how you feel, then you have no business hijacking this thread to dampen an invitation for creative output and speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david490811 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I am not sure responsing to forum topic is highjacking, but for Geezer kids I guest that would work. I am sure that this a sensitive issue for you having to address the actual topic of time travel on a time travel forum, especially when the term Non-linear Temporal (misnomer) is used. I cannot address any cognitive deficit the my experiencing but I do wish you well and hope that you don't happen to actually have the experience of time travel because in all sincereness your time line and that of anyone you would come in contact with in the past would be incurred upon by your lack understanding of the morays, the religious commitments the educational gaps and you would find yourself an outcast due to dress, accents and lack of personal history, lt not just enough to have romantic ideation on what people in past will tolerate instead of confirming the historical record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Three replies and never a single answer to any questions I asked. Why do you keep trolling? If you are not going to play nice, then go away, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david490811 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Chow Bella, no more trolling, have a wonderful life :hearteyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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