We all know about the grandfather paradox with time travel...if you go back and accidentally alter the timeline by killing one of your ancestors, do you really exist. But I have one big question about time travel. When you went back, would you travel back at your current age and in your current health condition, or would you arrive in the past at the age and health condition you were then?

I came to this question by thinking about what if you only went back into the past in short segments, like a few months or ears to avoid the grandfather paradox. If you only went back in short segments, you could still do or correct alot, but avoid major alterations to the timeline. For instance I had surgery for a detached retina in which the surgeon didnt do so great a job. I now have blind spots in my left eye. I switched surgeons and my new surgeon corrected some scar tissue in the eye that the first surgeon told me that nothing could be done about. What if I could travel back in time and go to the better surgeon instead? That's where my question came into play...when I went back, would it be with my eye in its current state, or would I go back to the time immediately before the detachment and see him when it happened?

Then I got to thinking of the obvious get rich scenarios Like going back a few days and picking the winning lottery numbers since you already know what they will be. Or betting on sports since you know the outcome of games....which led me to a second question...could I do anything about those? We all know how this past Bengals season went. We all know what changes could have been made. For instance when Andy Dalton broke his thumb in the second steeler game. How could we help the team avoid that? Nobody on the Bengals would listen to a random fan calling or showing up and telling them not to run a play. If a sent a letter, showed up at a practice, e-mail, or phone, would they take you serious and listen, or blow you off? I thought maybe if you caught Hue Jackson out for lunch or something the day before and laid out the scenario for him, maybe when it came to game time, he would say to himself, "wait, this is playing out exactly like that idiot who came up to me at lunch said it would, maybe I'd better not call the shovel pass". Or better yet, don't hand the ball to Jeremy Hill after the Burfict INT. But could that work?

And finally, If you went back in time, would you encounter yourself, or would the past you be not there because the future you is there now? I thought of this one while thinking of how you could make tons of money by buying things like cars or toys in the past, then preserving them in pristine condition to sell now. If I went back to say buy a Schwinn Sting Ray bike, or some GI Joes, would I automatically encounter my 7 year old self, or would I not be there and my parents freak out because now a grown man shows up in there son's bedroom?

Just fun things to think about. Any ideas?

Like Best Friends Whenever.

(05-15-2016, 10:16 AM)Beaker Wrote: Then I got to thinking of the obvious get rich scenarios Like going back a few days and picking the winning lottery numbers since you already know what they will be. Or betting on sports since you know the outcome of games....which led me to a second question...could I do anything about those? We all know how this past Bengals season went. We all know what changes could have been made. For instance when Andy Dalton broke his thumb in the second steeler game. How could we help the team avoid that? Nobody on the Bengals would listen to a random fan calling or showing up and telling them not to run a play. If a sent a letter, showed up at a practice, e-mail, or phone, would they take you serious and listen, or blow you off? I thought maybe if you caught Hue Jackson out for lunch or something the day before and laid out the scenario for him, maybe when it came to game time, he would say to himself, "wait, this is playing out exactly like that idiot who came up to me at lunch said it would, maybe I'd better not call the shovel pass". Or better yet, don't hand the ball to Jeremy Hill after the Burfict INT.

Trip Burfict as he ran into the locker room so he twists his ankle and doesn't return after his INT.

Or... you could just invent Google, form Motley Crue, and sing "Home Sweet Home" during the closing credits.

(05-15-2016, 08:41 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: Or...  you could just invent Google, form Motley Crue, and sing "Home Sweet Home" during the closing credits.

We could combine Twitter and Viagra. 

Twittagra. 

Zack Effron. He hasn't been invented yet.

It would be my luck to go back in time and bet my life savings on the Super Bowl, then injure Von Miller in a random car accident before the game.

I think the original Terminator movie is typically how most people view time travel: you go back as you are currently. But in the Terminator, only organic things can time travel, so hopefully there are some wimpy punk rockers standing around for you to beat up and take clothes from (they never really explain how the Terminator's metallic and robotic endoskeleton is able to make this trip, though).

Personally, I think time travel may be possible on a small scale. But anything traveling in time would be non-organic as I suppose organic cells would revert to their prior states during transfer.

The more pessimistic side of me says that time travel is not possible (for humans anyway), which is why we don't have a bunch of time travellers popping up around us all of the time. More likely the human race has ended in the path we are going down before they reached that kind of an innovation.

Have a happy Monday!

Remember at the end of "Back to the Future" Doc Brown shows up and tells Marty they have to hurry up and get back to the future to help his kids? Why was there any need to hurry if they were travelling in a time machine? Couldn't Marty have enjoyed his new life for a while and still arrived in plenty of time to save his kids in the future?

(05-16-2016, 04:26 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Remember at the end of "Back to the Future" Doc Brown shows up and tells Marty they have to hurry up and get back to the future to help his kids?  Why was there any need to hurry if they were travelling in a time machine?  Couldn't Marty have enjoyed his new life for a while and still arrived in plenty of time to save his kids in the future?

(05-16-2016, 04:26 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Remember at the end of "Back to the Future" Doc Brown shows up and tells Marty they have to hurry up and get back to the future to help his kids?  Why was there any need to hurry if they were travelling in a time machine?  Couldn't Marty have enjoyed his new life for a while and still arrived in plenty of time to save his kids in the future?

I've wondered that myself........