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I saw that suitcase when I first watched the movie and went   . And yes, I got Space's reference.  However, a time machine, if put into the public's hands, or anyone's hands really, would be a death spell for humanity as we know it, unless you believe in the multiuniverse theory. In one time continuum, the people going back in time would just disappear forever, while they will return to a new time continuum where they have to face the consequences of altering the past. If time travellers have visited our world, then they have already altered history into what it is now. It might be different from where they came from, but it will never change for us. However, I do not think a time machine will ever be built. I do not think it is possible. Spacetime can be warped, but it cannot be reversed, unless I am completely wrong about my ultra-theoretical physics. You can go forward in time (and you can accelerate time given the resources to alter relativity), but you cannot go back. |
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Problems start then.
Imagine if you did go back and grab a pile of valuable coins. Now what happened to the people in the present that HAD those? What happened to the money those people used to buy the ones they HAD? Next what about the Albums or flips that those people had those coins in? Then what about the time they spent going to places to buy those coins? And I could only imagine how the present would be changed due to even one coin changing locations.
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Philadelphia, 1792
Stay a few years and bring every modern medicine before going I can get my hands on :-)
swcoin.ecrater.com
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CCF Advertiser
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There is no reason to be so baroque. Just go back to 1950 with $5,000 in 1940's $20 and $50 bills and buy 1794, 1795 dollars and half dollars.
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Too much work, involved. I would simply pick a recent mega-lottery that hit high numbers before someone won it, take the numbers for the previous week's winnerless drawing, and then lump sum the whole thing. Then, I could just buy whatever I wanted.
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That is even more elegant, but you lose points for not doing it numismatically.
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Pillar of the Community
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Time travel is theoretically possible but it requires being safely trapped in a black hole then somehow escaping it. And that's just going forward in time.
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I Love wishing also.
I would settle to go back to the mid 1800`s with something to trade with that would have the value then and cheap to buy now and spend then that wouldn't cause a problem.
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Time travel is theoretically possible but it requires being safely trapped in a black hole then somehow escaping it. And that's just going forward in time. You really never know. If there is or will be time travel, you would not know it. Since what your now living could or would be the results of someone changing time by doing something in the past. Worst possibility would be that when someone changes the past, it could mean you were never born so now what? |
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Stay a few years and bring every modern medicine before going I can get my hands on :-) You better, Philadelphia went through yellow fever epidemics just about every year that killed hundreds of people. |
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carl, for time travel to work without paradox there would need to be a "many worlds" type branching so when you go back and grab some coins a new timeline is created with a different future than we experience. Alternatively, only closed loops would be possible so the only coins you would be able to find would be ones with a history that anyone in the present would trace back to the past you; i.e. the past you was "always there".
NOTE: I suspect Bill Jones is a time traveler!
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04/28/2016 12:18 am
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It would be cool to go to ancient rome, but I would just go to the 1920s or 30s and hoard the heck out of Wheaties.
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