Good, there are some concerts that I missed and most of the performers are dead or retired.
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Posted on 10/24/2025 8:44:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
So, of all the possible scenarios to illustrate how time-travel-induced paradoxes would not happen (because Time itself, would somehow "heal" the flow of history and force a similar outcome), he chose COVID!
It's obvious that a time-traveller visiting, say, 1923 Munich during Hitler's famous "Beer Hall Putsch" and detonating a 5-megaton nuclear warhead there would result in an outcome that could not be somehow "healed."
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Lol, nope, that woulda be3n a doub,e whammy if it had been
Good, there are some concerts that I missed and most of the performers are dead or retired.
I’d like to wade that stream by Sutters mill the year before the first guy discovered the gold. 😏
It appears you could not change the past to much effect.
However, you could obtain lots of information about the past which is much more accurate than the information currently available.
You might bury treasure or know about buried treasure, which you might recover in the future. Think about the possibility of “saving” some of the ancient texts which have been lost.
There may be things which were cheap, and durable, in the past which are worth a great deal today, as collectibles. Even just 200 years ago, if you could obtain first editions of now extremely valuable documents, and place them where they would be preserved and hidden, might prove worth while.
Thomas Jefferson lost an “invaluable” collection of notes on Indian languages was stolen and most dumped in the James river.
A time traveler might make a substitution or simply photograph the notes before they were destroyed.
Maybe it’s already been done...how would YOU know?
Sure, maybe it has already been done... but until an example is publicly demonstrated, a math proof does nothing for me.
There are unlimited ways in which it theoretically *could* be demonstrated.
For example, if a spacecraft crash-landed on earth tomorrow and it contained some evidence that it had been launched in 2185, that would constitute some level of proof.
Or if someone today said, “Hey, I went back in time to 1925, and I can prove it. I went into the office of The New York Times and I placed a small classified ad on page 48 saying that 100 years from today the president of the United States will be named Donald John Trump.” And then you went to a library obtained old microfilm images of the NYT for October 25, 1925, and such an ad was indeed on page 48. That would be proof of concept.
“You might bury treasure or know about buried treasure, which you might recover in the future.”
That is the plot of the Crichton novel “Timeline”. The movie sucked. The book was great..............
He’s planning to speak at a seminar to explain it last week.
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