Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, …) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it’s own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn’t an issue?
The end of time and the edge of the universe to have a good meal at the restaurant.
Go back to before multicellular life evolved so nothing will bother me
I’d love to see the future, because I really am hopeful for humanity to move beyond all this bullshit to some post scarcity utopia :)) Failing that, I’d probably go watch Phineas Gage’s big moment, because, woah.
I’ll visit past me and leave some letters that contain useful information. You know, don’t trust those people, avoid doing this mistake, know yourself etc. would be interesting to see how that timeline diverges from my own.
Actually. now that I’ve opened this door, might as well try influencing world history on a larger scale. How about I visit certain key moments where a dangerous person almost died, but survived to cause massive harm later down the line. Would be really interesting to see how history plays out after nudging Hitler a little bit closer than to that suitcase. History is just full of special moments like that.
I wouldn’t be a passive observer. I would actively change things to see what happens.
BTW, I believe in the many words interpretation of quantum physics, so all possibilities are equally real and they all exist simultaneously. No matter how hard you try to fix things or how badly you mess things up, that disaster branch was already there, always will be.
Exactly! That’s the sort of time travel I’m talking about!
Next stop: 1095, the office of Alexios I Komnenos. Who wants to see what the world looks like without the crusades?
I wouldn’t mind being there at the end of the children’s crusade, at the edge of the Mediterranean, as scores of kids wait for it to part. I’d just be there with a table and a chair, selling them Yo-yos
No need, he’s still alive and making youtube videos lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Lr5zMgE08
If you like fiction (and Stephen King for that matter), you should read 11 22 63. Main character goes back in time to change past events and things… sort of work out. It has a cool take on time travel and course of events in general, I was a big fan of reading it.
There is also a mediocre tv adaption of it as well if you’re not into fiction, but I didn’t finish it.
Some other books that handle time travel in fun ways and play with explicitly making changes to the past.
- Asimov’s The End of Eternity (might have gone without saying)
- Jack Finney’s Time and Again (read it as a kid, so might not actually be that good, but it’s illustrated which is fun!)
I would like to see the Hot Club de Paris with a shot of absinthe and a big fat joint
