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Let's say that time travel was possible, but that you weren't able to mess with history. What would you see or do?
As for me, I would love to go to a Toronto vs. Montreal hockey game at the Montreal Forum some time during the late 40's. Back when people listened to the game on radio, and the owners and players didn't come off as greedy ba------.

   

I would go back and re-witness all of the Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup wins.

Also, go listen to Martin Luther King.

   

I'd go back in time to see Rocket Richard score 5 goals and three assits with an injured arm! I'd also like to see the NHL commisioner get popped witha tear gas can.

   

That would be something to behold.

   

I'd go back and watch all the important battles that have been fought throughout the ages.

   

I'd go back to about 30 AD and see if all the stuff in the Bible is for real.

Other than that I'd be a lot like USA. I would like to see Waterloo in Person.

   

Travel back in time to see if Platos writings are true about Atlantis

   

l'd go back in time and give me the winning numbers to the 649 lol

   

I would probably like to go back to England during the 15th to 18th century. I want to live in a castle.

   

'72 Summit Series and the moon landings

   

A certain bookstore in Dallas or a wooded knoll in the same city, in 1963. Magical bullets pique my curiosity.

   

I read in the newspaper yesterday that some European scientists have said that time travel IS possible, however it would be impossible to travel back in time to change history. It's what some people call the "Grandmother Paradox", because they say "If someone travelled back in time to when their grandmother was young and murdered her, would that have stopped the time traveller from being born so that he couldn't go back and kill his grandmother in the first place?"

But these scientists have said that it's impossible. They say that if a person went back in time and tried to alter the past then time, or nature, would block them from doing so. As they are about to plunge with the knife to kill their grandmother, they would stumble and drop the knife on the floor, or something else will happen that will prevent them from doing so. Nature would prevent them changing the past.

   

But how do they know this since time travel hasn't been tested to this extent?

Does anyone know how time travel is supposed to work? Don't quote me on this because it's been a long time since I've been in a physics class. Have you heard of the Twins Paradox? One twin lives on top of a mountain, the other at the foot of the mountain. The twin at the top of the mountain will age slower than the twin at the foot of the mountain, although the age difference would be soooo slight, we wouldn't be able to really see it. It has something to do with time intervals between light waves, if memory serves me correctly.

This theory has been tested by NASA. Two clocks sychronized; one on the shuttle and one on the ground in a lab. When the shuttle came back, the clock on the shuttle was several hours behind the clock in the lab on the ground.

Basically, the higher and faster you go, time slows down. Going back in time is a difficult thing, though. I think one must travel 10 times the speed of light to actually travel back in time; don't quote me on this, it's been a while as stated earlier. This is the simple way of explaining it.

There's a lot more to it than what I stated. SR (Special Relativity), & GR (General Relativity-where the two same events are observed by different perspectives).

I got off track here, sorry. I think I would go back to stop the nukes being dropped on Japan. Wasn't there a miscommunication? The emperior was going to surrender?

   

Interesting concept this time travel and it will probably become a reality within our lifetime...if we live long enough.
Einstein thought time travel to be impossible because according to him, nothing could go faster than the speed of light. He was correct if he thought in terms of propulsory devices since all that is needed to go back in time is a question of achieving sufficient speed.
What Einstein couldn't have foreseen is that other ways of achieving the proper speed would be available in the future...computer speed. We are not quite there yet but it is coming.
A few weeks ago, it was announced that an electrical transistor impulse was tested at molecular level and was successful. When both computer and nanotechnologies are eventually meshed together, the needed speed criteria to travel back in time will become a reality...at a touch of a click perhaps ?
The question that stands to be asked is if time travel becomes possible in the future, does it mean that we who live today are real or someone else's virtual fantasy now living in the future ?

   

Hey michou! Wasn't there something a few years back that scientists tested and disovered that there are things in the universe that can travel faster than the speed of light? Some sort of experiments that they conducted? I'm sure I heard something to that effect. Have you heard anything of that nature?

   

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