The premise:

Reality is a multidimensional matrix of probabilities and events being experienced by observers throughout time.

You discovered a time machine.

How would you use it?

I'd go back and tell myself how to discover it even earlier,

earlier.


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What would be interesting to know is how far back in time the machine could go, and how far forward would the machine go ... would there be a value?

i would like 2 the moon and see if we did really land on it..also i would like 2 see how the pyramids were built...and go back 2 when i was 20 years old and tell my twin brother not 2 go on that fair ride.."broke his back,now in a wheelchair"

I would not use it. If I changed ONE thing in the past, then the entire events of anything that was associated with my life would be changed...without their consent.

The past bell has been rung...and I have gained and learned from it many many times...

The future bell has yet to ring and I do not have the knowledge that I would need to make the decisions into the future...until I live the lifetime between now and then.

There are many many things that I would have done differently, things I would not have done at all, yet, everything I know now would then be different, and not necessarily for the better...

I'd spend my life going forward and back throughout the ages picking up animals in one period, and dropping them off in another, just to create more confusion in the Creation/Evolution debate.

I would go back and try use it to prevent a lot of the deaths that have occurred through terrorism.

That is too funny!...wake up one morning and see a tyrannosaurus rex outside your window!

I would want to go back and eat another piece of my grandmother's apple pie...sit on the back porch and listen to my grandma and grandpa laugh again...go back and sit and listen to grandpa play the harmonica for me...

for self gratification and profit....

I would go back to when I broke my back, and tell myself to not mess with that compressor behind the stack of drywall.

Id go back and STOP YOU!!! ARGGG!

The only kind of time machine that would interest me is one that could actually return me into my body at about 6 years old whilst retaining my current wisdom and experiences.

Not so much the knowledge, although it would probably be impossible to retain the wisdom without also retaining some knoweldge.

But I mean, I wouldn't want to know the outcome of events, like remembering who won the superbowls and things like that. I don't want the knowledge for the purpose of having that kind of advantage.

I just want the wisdom to recognize earlier in life that society was totally full of crap and religion was a farce as it had been presented to me. More importantly I'd like to retain the spiritual wisdom that I've gained from having lived this life.

My biggest complaint with a human lifetime is that by the time I figured out what was truly important the best opportunities had long since passed me by.

Barring that type of time machine, I suppose I could look up lottery numbers for specific years and then go back in time to maybe when I was about 35 (at a time when I think I wise enough to know what to do with lots of money), and just hand myself a number.

Then whilst I was there I might just go around giving a bunch of random people winning lottery numbers too.

That'd be fun.

I'm not sure if it would do me any good to give myself a winning lottery number. If I did that, would my memory instantly change to reflect the different life I had had? Would it come to pass that the life I had actually lived never actually happened?

I perfer to believe that when my physical body dies I will be given the opportunity to relive my life just as I had described. I might even be able to specify no wars, or even rumors of wars, or even histories of wars, or nasty religions!

Hey why not? Didn't someone once say that with "God" all things are possible? If that's true, then if I can imagine it, it must be possible for God. Otherwise I would have imagined something that even God can't pull off.

So why would I need a time 'machine'? Owl just wait until I die and then let God do the magick. That way *anything* will be possible without restriction.

I'd go back and copy down all my mom's recipes.

I lucked out on that one. I actually spent a lot of time in the kitchen helping my mother cook and learning her recipes first hand.

And she did a lot of baking too. So in addition to making things like great meals, I also learned the secrets of making great cakes, pies, and bread. In fact, I still make my own bread today. I use a bread making machine now, but I still use mom's old recipes.

Yep, I did do some things right when I was back there in the past.

It wasn't a total disaster. Just the same I'd like to go back and do it again even better.

My apologies to JeannieBean, because ever since the question was posted...I have had this in my head...

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

I'd go back to 1913 and stop the Federal Reserve Act from being passed.

there is not any guarantee that things will be better...IF you change one thing, it will set off a pattern of changes that will affect every choice you made and every choice you did not make...and everyone that was affected by those original choices...

You did not live with impact on others...

would you go back to make your life better, knowing that it would not be good for other people?

you will have no control over that...

There are many many mistakes that I would love to change, yet, it is not just those that would change...everything would change...and then even if we had the knowledge or wisdom we do now...it may be different than the knowledge or wisdom that would be of benefit...

I believe that you cannot "unring" a bell...

Give me some details how you would do that. I mean, what easy way could you figure our how go back in time and make some profit.

I would like to be a time traveling smuggler of ancient artifacts. That would be fun.

That may not be as easy as it sounds. Realistically, imagine you are there, in 1913. How would you do it? Whom would you have to convince or kill?

Realitivistic time or Quantum multi-time.