Alternative If You Could Go Back In Time...

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You have a time machine, but it has a drawback. You can't change anything. You can observe, you can photograph, photocopy and video, you can take things apart and put them back together, and if you're really sneaky, you can swap something for something that's effectively identical, but you can leave no evidence behind you've ever been there, you can't rewrite history, you can't even let yourself be seen or heard.

Where would you go and what would you do?


If I could do this, I'd try to be uber-sneaky. After her last battle, Boudecca was never found. No trace of her was ever seen again - amongst the living or the dead. Sneaking back to just after she vanishes from history and shifting her into the future wouldn't actually change history... would it?

Wow, you're talking to me?

If you are I don't know.

If you're not, sorry I thought you addressed my name on the title thread thingamajigga.

I DO have a time machine but it only goes into the future which I love because the past has happened already.

The past exists as ideas, as knowledge and as influence.

The future is happening just not in the present or in the past.

The present is the here and now shaped and molded by the past and influencing the twists and turns of the future.

Time is just nature's way of stopping everything happening at once
Boudecca told me that.

id go back to get all those sportscards i want, like MJ rookie.

Since I sometimes believe all the threads of time are unravelling at the same time, I would watch everything from where I am LOL and just use my mental powers to view them all.

I'd love to watch Roger Bannister's historic sub four-minute mile at Iffley Road, England, on May 6, 1954.

If I could go back in time, I'd travel back to 1997 and take my mum to London for three weeks. The two of us would ride the Routemasters, together.

Id go back to the battle in which Alexander the Great got the wounds that got infected and killed him and replace all the enemy weapons with identical plastic spears and arrows. You said as long as it looked identical you could replace it.

I would go back and see how my ancestors lived and take pictures of them.

GRAWR! This doesn't make sense scientifically!
You can't observe something without changing it!
You can't photograph without affecting a few photons!

But science aside, and assuming I can only observe things and move freely, ignoring physics, I would go back to when the universe was created, and look at the singularity, and say as I AM GOD, "That's the universe!" and then wait, seeing the geometry of space-time unfold into whatever shape it is now. Soon, Neanderthals would evolve and I'd see if there were really significant similarities. Then I'd see ancient man evolve and be stupider than Neanderthal. Then I'd see man learn something from Neanderthal and then kill Neanderthal. Then I'd be sad.