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If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - Misty - 29th October 2011
I read a short story years ago (can't remember title or author) about time travel. A history student was offered the opportunity to go on one of the first 'journies' and he hoped to go back to meet St Paul - learned Hebrew and Latin etc to help him out. Due to a glitch he ended up at St Paul's Cathedral during the blitz and helped the team of fire fighters constantly on the roof. He was heard muttering "what have we done?" by one of the team and they assumed he was a German spy (he didn't really fit in). In his future time St Paul's had been blown up by a terrorist attack with a dirty bomb. He was whisked back to his own time to discover it wasn't a glitch - his Professor just wanted him to see the humanity behind all history, even the most momentous events. (I might have remembered this all wrong - but the concept has stayed with me).
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - deadlylampshade - 29th October 2011
Coo...that's a bit deep Misty!:0
Hmmm...String Theory. Nothing to do with the Clangers and how to make soup then?
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - Misty - 29th October 2011
No, I'm very shallow ... a proper chattering brook! I looked the story up and I have mis-remembered it quite a bit - it's called Fire Watch by Connie Willis and can be read online (the joy of the internet!)
I can't help with string theory or multiple universes, my brain tells me it's not sensible and then shuts down.
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - P Prentice - 31st October 2011
deadlylampshade Wrote:Thanks...it was meant to be a rhetorical question, actually as I think it is visions of the future as people see visions of the past...
oh lord spare us from rhetorical questions in the forum
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - P Prentice - 31st October 2011
alisdair Wrote:.. I may be wrong but is it not the case that there is only mtDNA that survives in the present population from the meso? Anyone with a bit more knowledge care to clarify?
not sure where you are drivin to with this
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - loupiote - 1st November 2011
Wax Wrote:Did a Google search on "evidence for time travel" oh dear oh dear!!!!!! Fortunately there are lots of good debunking sites as well. It is the total lack of imagination that got me. If I was going to go back in time I would make sure I left my mark in a distinctive way.
Lack of imagination is surprisingly common amongst supporters of wild theories. What sort of mark would you leave, then?
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - Wax - 1st November 2011
loupiote Wrote:Lack of imagination is surprisingly common amongst supporters of wild theories. What sort of mark would you leave, then?huumm interesting thought, apart from " Hello Sweetie" in six foot high letters on everything perhaps a significant sequence of binary numbers . (Vertical lines and circles). I would need to chat to some computer geeks first. I can just see it binary code in a cave painting. Wonder if it is already there?
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - loupiote - 2nd November 2011
Haha I can imagine some message in binary code, splattered with undeniably ancient dirt, would confuse archaeologists for decades to come. Maybe you should also leave a message in Klingon and watch the Star Trek fandom tear itself apart.
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - Sith - 2nd November 2011
Regular viewers of Dr Who will already know that the remains of most ancient civilisations are littered with references to their visits from time travellers.
If you could return a specific Time and place. .... - P Prentice - 8th November 2011
last week so that i could put that extra digit in my contract fee - shite