• Question: If you could time travel would you go faward or backwards in time? Why, Where and when?

    Asked by itch to Allan, Angela, Diva, Harriet, Nathan on 3 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Harriet Groom

      Harriet Groom answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      ooo interesting question. If I could go forward or backward in time then I might like to go forward in time (going backward might create too many problems!!?. Perhaps I could go forward to see if the rate of warming of the earth is what we think to help with the climate change problem – hmm not very imaginative…

    • Photo: Allan Pang

      Allan Pang answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      We had a short discussion about this with some of my friends for fun.

      I prefer to go backwards, this is because if you go forward, you cannot really experience backwards (if that makes sense!!!).

      I want to change history, and I think it’s easier to change the past than the future, since the knowledge you have right now is the knowledge the past don’t know.

      In that way, I can warn people of possible disasters and how to avoid it. Bring the technology to the past and have more time to improve it. (And ultimately, being selfish, I can discover things before even being discovered at that time!)

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      Nathan Langford answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      Well, I had a similar idea to Harriet, and perhaps it might sound a bit cheesy, but if we really could travel in time, I think it’s the most important thing we could do.

      I would go into the future, not because of what I could do there, but because of what I could learn there and what I could do when I came back again.

      Specifically, I would go about 100 years into the future and see what we have done to the environment and the planet in the next 100 years. I would look at where we had done the most damage and use that information when I came back to know what the most urgent things to change are and where the most important new technologies and innovations would be.

      Not knowing exactly what’s going to happen if we don’t act on climate change is really the biggest roadblock to actually getting people to do something about it.

    • Photo: Diva Amon

      Diva Amon answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      Hi itch,

      This is a great question!

      I would most definitely go backwards in time if given the chance. I would want to go back about 10 million years, way before humans or any human-like ancestors. This would ensure that I could see the Earth and all of it’s flora and fauna before we humans, decided to change and ruin quite a lot of it. I have just always imagined it to be unbelievably beautiful back then – a chance to see nature at it’s best. I would just want to see it and experience it – I wouldn’t want to change anything as that could end up putting the planet and humans into an even worse position than we are in now.

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