If You Could Go Back In Time…..

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I’m adding the 60’s to my list of periods of time I would like to go back to.I think that would be pretty groovy!

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Thanks Wombat, willdo.

As for the question of going back into time, I don’t know. Come tothink about it, it really doesn’t matter. If I don’t like the period I’ve chosen, I could be in another in a flash 😉

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Jim,

LOL. Rosewell no less! Have a quick look, and say, ah-ha! Thought so. And then skoot back to the tardis and back to the future! Classic.

Come to think of it, I would love to go back to age of the Dinosaurs with a really good on them and compare the real with the imagined. Oh, and take a bloody big GUN as well. 🙂

Regards, Glenn.

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I’d go back to New Mexico in ’47 and have a squizz at the “weather balloons” laying about.

Cheers,
James

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Barak

I’m sorry but I have no idea of the film’s availability on line. Occasionally I see a copy on sale in Aus but wherever you live, who knows?

The film actually involves a factual element in its story line concerning a missing US senator of the day, which only makes the storyline more fascinating. One of the most humourous scenes is where two F-14s, fully armed, come across two Zeros. The Tomcat pilots approach from the rear, and have to extend their wings fully and lower flaps just to fly as slow as the Zeros, but when they fly over the two Jap planes, the expressions on the Jap pilots’ faces is priceless.

It is definitely worth pursing – perhaps you could check with a local video store to see if a copy is still available.

Good luck.

Regards

Wombat

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-07-02 AT 08:17 PM (GMT)]I would go back in time to 1920’s armed with blue prints/info print outs from internet of hi-tech F-16s and change the history of turkish expansionist ideas in Greece, Cyprus and in the area.

Failing that i would like to go back and give myself/family the lotto numbers for the futue and sports results and speculative gambler on the stock markets something like back to the future 2.

regards

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Wombat,

is it possible to download the movie from somewhere, cause it’s sounds worth watching.

Back to the Vikings

I would want to go back to the Viking Age in Iceland, I read so many of the Sagas and old Icelandic poems, and visited the country several times on holiday, I would like to see it before all the towns were built and it really was almost unspoilt with only small farms. It truly is a superb country but is now more commercialised with more bars and nightclubs than I remember from when I used to go.[www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sabenabelgianairlines]

RE: is it possible??

Time slows as you move faster. Einstein’s theory of relativity postulates that as you approach the speed of light time slows to the outside observer. To the traveller on the fast moving ship, time would appear to speed up as everything outside would age faster than than the actual recored time elapsed on the ship.

The theory has been proven in a way with atmoic clocks on orbital satelites showing the tiniest but still decernable variations outside their normal accuracy. In other words they had slowed, when they shouldn’t have.

Regards, Glenn.

is it possible??

Time travel is possible. Einstein proved that. But it is only possible to go forward in time. Time in itself does not exist but is part of the time-space continuum. So, if one goes faster through space one goes faster through time. The speed at which we (our planet) moves through space is relatively stable, so that’s why time is constant. If one leaves the planet in a spaceship and moves through space at high speed (say a quarter of the speed of light) one moves forward in time.

That’s why moving back in time is NOT possible. One would need to move at a negative speed (a concept which is sometimes used, but only by definition, not seen in reality).

In fact, nobody knows this (don’t know why!!!), but people HAVE already travelled through time!!!! When the astronauts went to the moon it was noted that their clocks were somewhat faster upon return. More than the known accuracy (i.e. 1 second per million years). Calculations have shown that this was statistically significant (and exactly the time difference as Einstein had predicted). The exact time travelled was less than a second (from memory 1/100th of a second), but it was significant.

Cheers,

Chris.

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Harry

On the subject of time travel being impossible, have you ever seen the movie “Final Countdown”, made in 1980 starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen? That movie raised the enigma you referred to, when a modern, fully armed US carrier (Nimitz) was transported back to December 7. 1941. Once the crew realised what had happened, the captain was faced with the quandary of whether to change history or not by attacking the Japanese fleet before it had actually attacked Pearl Harbour.

This is one of the most fascinating movies I have ever seen and one which I frequently re-watch on video. The whole concept is fascinating, as the destructive capability of the Nimitz would easily have been sufficient to anhilate the entire Jap fleet before it could launch the first attack. Only a freak of nature could save history being changed.

With regard to my choice of time travel, I am a bit more modest in my wishes than some of the other posts. I’d just like to return to the area where I spent my first years, 50 years ago, which has been subject to so much change since, and see it as it was back then. I’d love to see my family members as they were then, and look at the cars which haven’t been on the roads for many years, see DC-3’s, DC-4’s, Short Solent Class flying boats (I think that’s what they were) operating from Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour and Super Constellations fly overhead, and the occasional RAAF Mustang or Meteor.

I have lived through enough significant historical moments in time that I don’t feel the need to go back to any others. My early days in Manly would do me fine.

Interesting post – makes one think back a bit.

Wombat

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>As to world events I would like to have been in London on VE
>night in 1945. To see the city lit up again after almost six
>years and the joy on people’s faces would be a truly
>emotional experience.

Kev, amen to that! I would love that. As a world event to see. 🙂
People? Gen. Douglas McArthur or Billy Mitchell, or Eric Hartmann. Time Period? Shogunate Japan for sure as the enigmatic westerner.

Its a paradox, but its fun to dream, is it not?

Regards, Glenn.

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Harry,

time travel may indeed be impossible but as I understand it the topic asks what events we would like to witness and why. Not what events we would like to change.

I would like to go back to Salonika in 1916 and find out exactly how my Grandfather got wounded. He was a driver of horse transport in the Great War and was severely wounded by shellfire which resulted in him having to have a steel plate inserted into his face. He returned to duty after almost a year and a half and went on to serve in France and later in Germany. He had also been wounded while serving as a cavalryman in India before the war.

As to world events I would like to have been in London on VE night in 1945. To see the city lit up again after almost six years and the joy on people’s faces would be a truly emotional experience.

As for a particular person I would dearly like to have met General Robert E Lee, Confederate States Army.

Regards,

kev35

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-07-02 AT 07:01 PM (GMT)] Time travel is impossible.Suppose you want to go back in time and prevent some accident from happening – if you did that,then there’d be no accident and with it,no reason to go back in time to prevent it.But if you don’t go back,the accident will happen!It’s a paradox.

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I would love to go back to one of the mass Nazi rallies like Nuremberg.I’m no neo-nazi or NF/BMP but you must admit that when it came to spectacle and pomp the Nazis had it with jam on!An added bonus would be to tell Adolf about himself but knowing my luck I’d get stuck in a time warp and umpteen Brownshirts would kick the living shite out of me!

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Dang it Dazza, you got mine.

Well, obviously I too would love to travel back in time to Lambert Field in St. Louis on the 27th of May 1958. The XF4H-1 takes to the air for the first time, and personally I feel supersonic fighter jets have been heavily influenced since that day.

Also, I’d like to go back to when the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903 (you know next you is going to have some amazing air shows….).

Also, I’d like to have been there when Apollo 11 launched. I can only imagine how proud those who watched felt when those famous words were spoken as the astronauts got out onto the moon.

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The beginning of the universe… so I could see how it formed.

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27th May 1958, St.Louis, so I could witness the first flight of the F-4, not really an earth shattering event in the grand scheme of things, but something I’d like to have seen.
Regards, Dazza.