05-15-2016, 10:16 AM
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?
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?
