Time Travel

[Mad Doug Biker]

Imagine if you go back to the Kennedy assassination, and can't resist the urge to shout a warning, only to find it was him turning to hear what you were shouting that brought him in line with a bullet that would have otherwise missed.

That's why you'd need to be able to go back more than once, so you can suss it all out, or even, meet yourself on the previous trip or trips and work together, so you are in more than one place at once and potentially confuse the 'right' people in the process! 😆

 

[classic33]

That's why you'd need to be able to go back more than once, so you can suss it all out, or even, meet yourself on the previous trip or trips and work together, so you are in more than one place at once and potentially confuse the 'right' people in the process! 😆

You mean like tapping Oswald on the shoulder as he's taking aim?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You mean like tapping Oswald on the shoulder as he's taking aim?

Yeah and just happening to be at the grassy knoll at the right moment, etc.

That said, he'd probably still have been shot elsewhere at a later date anyway, so Deely Plaza in Dallas would just be another anonymous place.

Was it meant to happen anyway, regardless? Is time already set, like @captain nemo1701 and others have said?

 

[The Crofted Crest]

you'd need to be able to go back more than once, so you can suss it all out, or even, meet yourself

So theoretically there could be an infinite number of yourself.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

So theoretically there could be an infinite number of yourself.

At the time, potentially, yes, until you all went back to the present and things would be 'reset'?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Who would travel forward to their own funeral?

I reckon I would, it should be a laugh, especially if you went to the wake and introduced yourself.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Who would travel forward to their own funeral?

I reckon I would, it should be a laugh.

When would you know, though, oh and where?

 

[classic33]

When would you know, though, oh and where?

Go forward far enough, beyond life expectancy, look up the date and location of of the burial location.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Go forward far enough, beyond life expectancy, look up the date and location of of the burial location.

Yes if you can travel more than once.

Just imagine, going back and commenting on how nice the Canapes were or something whilst everyone else looks on in horror 😆

 

[Nibor]

If the machine moves you only in time we would most likely end up lost in deep space in a random orbit of the sun

 

[FishFright]

If the machine moves you only in time we would most likely end up lost in deep space in a random orbit of the sun

I've often wondered how inertial frame of reference would work with time travel. If time is just another axis with your local frame then you're fine , otherwise it would be vacuum time

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If the machine moves you only in time we would most likely end up lost in deep space in a random orbit of the sun

Yes the 'middle of a mountain' theory , as named on here earlier.

 

[Dogtrousers]

If the machine moves you only in time we would most likely end up lost in deep space in a random orbit of the sun

Spoilsport

 

[captain nemo1701]

Imagine if you go back to the Kennedy assassination, and can't resist the urge to shout a warning, only to find it was him turning to hear what you were shouting that brought him in line with a bullet that would have otherwise missed.

That would likely be the predestination paradox which is a situation in which a person traveling back in time with the intention to change the outcome, becomes part of past events. An example of this is in the Dr Who story 'Rosa' in which the Doctor & her companions realise at the last moment on the bus that they're now part of the events they learnt about in school.

The short lived Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in 1979-80 did a story about a time traveller from the past who turns up in the 25th Century but on returning to the past, leaves a message for Buck in which he reveals that the discovery of time travel and his journey into the future being made public were responsible for triggering WW3 in the first place.

Another fun time travel story is the ST TNG episode 'Cause and Effect' in which the crew discover they're stuck in a time loop and plot how to escape.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Yes the 'middle of a mountain' theory , as named on here earlier.

Not if you had preserved your angular momentum ie. rotational energy. It was theorised that in Back to the Future that this must have been the case when the car jumps one minute into the future, if they'd not accounted for it, the DeLorean would have materialised miles away due to the rotating earth which would have shifted whilst the car was time travelling so the original car park coordinates would have moved. If you froze yourself in time without preserving your momentum, and unfroze a few hours later, you'd probably be floating in space since the Earth would have moved on in its orbit.