You have 2 time travels: Choose wisely
Jan 13, 2009, 8:37p - Imagination
If you could travel to any 2 points in time, to where and when would you go?
This question popped into my mind as I was wandering the snow-cleared paths of MIT today. I had taken a break from my lab to contemplate the fine points of associative and non-associative learning (with little luck), when I saw a few plump ... more »
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anonymous
- Jan 21, 2009, 6:41p
i would like to travel back to time before the universe was created..
nikhil
- Jan 21, 2009, 7:18p
ahh... but where would you land? what would be your GPS coordinates? if your GPS coords didn't exist at that point in time, i'm not sure you'd be able to successfully travel to then..
Basil Rush
- Dec 21, 2009, 12:57p
Forwards definitely to start with, then perhaps backwards to take corrective action if forwards scared me.
I'd love to know what happens to us all in a thousand years time. Whether we survive another ice-age, whether we ever understand that elegans worm properly let alone develop some strong-AI.
I'm not sure I'd spend much time researching what happens to little old me. Though if I end up in the future and there's some way of extending my life further I suspect I'd have to take the opportunity.
Now the grid reference and exact date are going to take some serious consideration.
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