Time Travel

[darthbluntedone]

i would go back in time with a xbox 360 and smash osama bin laden as a baby right in the head untill the xbox 360 was smashed to bits! oh yeah!!!! smashing terrorist babies in the head with a xbox 360 its like the terminator but not!

[Inazuma]

Forgive me for shitting on everyone's parade but time travel is impossible. "Time" doesn't really exist. It's just a measurement system that everyone has agreed to. It's a useful tool for recording when things happened and when things will happen but there is no way to manipulate it to go back in time since there is nothing to manipulate.

Also (more shit on the parade), if time travel were somehow possible, we would know about it already. That's because someone from the future would have traveled back in time to our time period.

The closest thing we have to time travel would be daylight savings time, when the clock goes from 1:59 AM to 1:00 AM. The people who live in the places that have this tradition are technically traveling back in time. Same thing when the clock skips forward an hour. But of course, nothing is really happening since time is nothing more than a measurement system. You could even go so far as to have every person on the planet agree on changing today's date to January 1st in the year 1990. Does that mean we traveled back in time 20 years? Yes. Does it mean anything else? Nope. It does nothing.

Ok, I think I shit on the parade enough there. For the OP's question of what I would do gaming related, if I could travel back in time...

I would pretty much do exactly the same thing I did the first time. I would play a shit ton of video games and have a ton of fun doing it, except this time I would impress my friends by being really good at the games the first time I played them. Being able to clear super hard DDR songs when the game is brand new in the arcades would be pretty neat.

[Haoie]

Time travel will destroy the universe.

And create some new universe.

Yippie.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Forgive me for shitting on everyone's parade but time travel is impossible. "Time" doesn't really exist. It's just a measurement system that everyone has agreed to. It's a useful tool for recording when things happened and when things will happen but there is no way to manipulate it to go back in time since there is nothing to manipulate.

Also (more shit on the parade), if time travel were somehow possible, we would know about it already. That's because someone from the future would have traveled back in time to our time period.

The closest thing we have to time travel would be daylight savings time, when the clock goes from 1:59 AM to 1:00 AM. The people who live in the places that have this tradition are technically traveling back in time. Same thing when the clock skips forward an hour. But of course, nothing is really happening since time is nothing more than a measurement system. You could even go so far as to have every person on the planet agree on changing today's date to January 1st in the year 1990. Does that mean we traveled back in time 20 years? Yes. Does it mean anything else? Nope. It does nothing.

Ok, I think I shit on the parade enough there. For the OP's question of what I would do gaming related, if I could travel back in time...

I would pretty much do exactly the same thing I did the first time. I would play a shit ton of video games and have a ton of fun doing it, except this time I would impress my friends by being really good at the games the first time I played them. Being able to clear super hard DDR songs when the game is brand new in the arcades would be pretty neat.

Read my my posts, it's literally possible to travel forwards to a future present within our own dimensional timeline. The only problems are:

1) You need some form of propulsion either at or near the speed of light.

2) Time passes normally for everyone else around you. Meaning what felt like you to be a week of traveling at light speed is really a few thousand years to people on earth. Time dilates and morphs into a bubble around objects traveling at or near the speed of light causing you not to be affected by the passage of normal time on the outside.

3) The science is there, but like I said before in my other posts, time is linear, there is no future or past, only present. To travel through time you would have to slide between dimensions to a separate timeline where the past to us is actually the current present for them.

The science is there, but we just don't have the technology.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I'm noticing I didn't answer the OP's original question either.

I'd probably grab some fresh consoles and games, a case or two of sealed Chrono Triggers and some awesome 90's stuff.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Time travel will destroy the universe.

And create some new universe.

Yippie.

Yup, though you wouldn't notice it.

You are you and live in your own dimension with other infinite dimensions surrounding you relating to you and only you. The only time the whole universe would collapse would be if you were to violate an inevitable circumstance needed to close a time loop. If that were to happen you and all of your related dimensions would literally cease to exist period.

Were you to die in a moment of free will or at say the end of your natural life then your existing dimension and all of it's side-along companions would continue on their merry way like normal.

[Ivo]

We all travel in time - just that we are moving forward

If anyone wants to understand the thing with special relativity and time dilation, it isn't practically hard. You can remember the way it goes by thinking "Nature is cruel", as your own lifetime is ALWAYS the shortest possible. What happens is that to another observer you may last longer (this is very helpful in measuring short lifetimes of particles, if they are boosted in comparison with the lab they last longer in your frame so you can measure it easier).
So what can happen is that you go speeding by near the speed of light, and to you everyone else seems to last longer and to them you seem to last longer. The trick to resolve the twin's paradox is that it is no longer just Special Relativity as accelerations are necessary to bring one of them back into the same reference frame as the other (the traveller has to swap frames). If only one of them goes through the accelerations that breaks the symmetry between them so it is no longer a paradox that one of them will be older than the other when they reunite in the same frame.

In terms of fiction though, I'm a fan of internally consistent time travel. That is something that you don't often see, but for example in that animated series Gargoyles is done properly with care. When they go back in time they never change anything.
Particularly funny is the episodes where the Archmage goes back in time to teach himself how to absorb the Grimmorum, then when the "new" one learns, the older guy says "it is time" and the "new" one goes back to teach "another" "new" one just as had happened to him.

Ivo.

[aeon]

I figured out how to travel into time when I was 10:

Step one: Face two mirrors toward one another and stand in the middle.
Step two: Spin around (clockwise for future, counter for past) until you get dizzy.
Step three: Shotgun Hi-C until you pass out.

...Or just play Turtles in Time.

But thinking about it now, I don't think I would go back and change anything. I have really fond memories of playing Sonic 2 with my brother on Sunday morning, Staying up all night playing Super Mario 64, and getting busted by my dad at 4 in the morning for playing TFC instead of sleeping for school.

Which reminds me, remember when we all had 56k and using the sniper in TFC required serious skill? Running that red dot across the wall trying to cap that engineer- you had to lead him by like 10ft sometimes before you let off that trigger, then 1 second later: GIB.

Kids have it WAY to easy nowadays.

[SpaceBooger]

I just think of time as nothing more than a unit of measurement like a meter or foot. Therefore it does exist but not 100% concrete, thus no traveling in time.

BUT, if I could I would deliver that letter I wrote to my past self in the earlier thread.

[newt42]

I'd go back and buy a bunch of newly boxed consoles and a few Holy Grails of gaming still in the shrink wrap, take them to the present time and sell most of them. Yay money!