My thought, too. Will travelers to the past be prohibited from speaking to anyone or doing anything, lest they change history? Me, I'd shoot Hitler as a kid, knock on Hillary's parents' door on that crucial conception night, warn President Lincoln's guards before he went to Ford's Theater--the possibilities are endless.
Of course, I'd be taking the chance that I'd create something even worse, or that I wouldn't exist at all!
"Will travelers to the past be prohibited from speaking to anyone or doing anything, lest they change history?"
No, because they go to an alternative universe each time.
They may change some-other-us time stream, but not the one we are in.
>>Me, I'd shoot Hitler as a kid, knock on Hillary's parents' door on that crucial conception night, warn President Lincoln's guards before he went to Ford's Theater--the possibilities are endless.
Yah, problem there is that Lincoln's Pinkerton guards sort of wandered off in search of a pee trough right when "Gimp" Booth happened to be slinking about. Some say Secretary of War "Demerit" Staunton couldn't cope with Lincoln's proposed revenge and punishment free rebuilding of the South program. But then Lincoln was really smart and really smart people have a tough time on this planet anyhow.
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