Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.
My answer to this would be “watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on”.
I don’t see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.
Let’s just say no one’s noticed anything yet
I wrote a novel where in future people time travel back in time to watch movies in the theater like the original Star Wars. It’s book one of a series.
It’s book one of a series.
So naturally it’s called part IV, right?
Lol that’s nice idea but don’t think it work.
Go back in time and fill the lottery, but don’t check the winning numbers before going back.
To me the rules of time travel are that it is time travel only. Go forward or back more than a few seconds and you’ll find yourself floating in the vacuum of space rapidly dying as the earth, the galaxy and the universe continues moving.
The world has yet to notice me traveling one day into the future every 24 hours.
Nah, we just don’t care…
You vanish every other day and nobody has noticed??
There’s a quote in a book I like along those lines, that goes: “First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
I’ve always really liked that
We travel into the future at the blindingly fast rate of one second per second.
Rewind the last 15 seconds of a meal to enjoy the last bite again.
But then you’d have to fight yourself for that last bite! Oh the paradox begins, who was it that took the last bite then?!
Wow. Great idea! You get to enjoy a great meal again, but without getting overfull
Thank you! I think the same idea could be applied to any short, fleeting moment where you’d take no different action, like an enjoyable sunset or a sweet smell, though being able to experience those again and again may diminish their value.
That would just affect you, though, not the timeline as a whole.
rewind 5 seconds orgasm
Aaand we’ve created a new addiction problem
Going forward at all seems less harmful than going back, but perhaps more dangerous.
Agreed, but going forward would also then open the risk of trying to capitalise on/prevent what you saw, once you return to your present, which probably wouldn’t end well.
Safer way would probably be going forward and staying there, like another comment said. Maybe use it to skip boring stuff, like waiting in line at the DMV, or waiting for your food to be served, etc.
Instead of rewinding the video, just rewind causality.
And when you skip ads you really skip ads.
Traveling a second back in time to scratch that itch before it even happens. Maybe going back in time to tell yourself not to order that taco bell. Skipping forward in time to skip a hot pocket cooking in the microwave. Traveling a couple of minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the officer that pulled you over.
Here’s the real question, if it’s possible to time travel isn’t it just part of the timeline even if it doesn’t seem like it. If you could traverse forward and backwards in time like a tape deck isn’t it already laid out including all of the time traveling you’ll ever do.
Oh wow, skipping a microwaving hot pocket just reminded me of the movie Click and how SPOILERS FOR CLICK it just adapts and starts fast forwarding through shit it doesn’t think he wants to see until he realizes he misses those things
I like the idea of someone traveling through time like the Terminator for mundain things like this. Always ending up naked, leaving scorch marks everywhere, and just casually doing it in front of people without any warning.
Traveling a few minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the office that pulled you over
Skips time … Cuffed on the floor
Or you travel through time like the Terminator. You find yourself completely naked with the cop having an existential crisis as he questions if any of this is real and the smell of bacon fills the air.
You can’t change the future (…of your original universe)
That die had already been cast, that wave function had already collapsed. The very act of traveling backwards immediately creates a new timeline no matter what.
Any change you make any step you take, is all affecting that new universe while your original universe keeps on keeping on the way that it was, except now without you in it.
So from your perspective, if you were to travel forward again, things would be different, yes. But only because you’re no longer in your original universe. The people in your original universe would see no changes because in that universe, the wave function had already collapsed, the die had already been cast.
There is no chance to EVER get back to your original timeline no matter what. Every jump backwards instantly creates a new universe (one in which the wave function collapses to reveal that you have traveled through time) and every jump forward is in THAT new timeline.
Essentially, you can’t go home again.
Well I travelled back in time and killed Hans-Johann Scherzlgruber-Vötzfenstein so the world wouldn’t have to suffer through his atrocities.
Going back a few hours and getting some more sleep sounds nice
A full night’s sleep every night does sound good. I wonder what that’s like.
Adequate sleep and infinite gym time would make my life so much better.
Depends on the type of “time travel”. Backwards time travel doesn’t seem plausible, so I guess we’re talking only about 1 way physical transport time travel. That kind of time travel is achieved either by traveling at speeds approaching the speed of light or via intense gravity, unless you consider something like being cryogenically frozen and then reanimated at some point in the future to be “time travel”.
As far as least amount of impact? I guess in terms of impact, its best to travel to the nearest point in the future that you possibly can, so that hopefully very little has changed and you’re still more or less the same person living the same life (with just a short gap from leaving the present and arriving in the future). Otherwise, you could take a huge risk and try to travel to the distant future to a time when all traces of your current life have disappeared and peoples’ memory of you has long been forgotten.
We are all travelling through time right now with very little impact.
Yes I know, I suck.
If it were ever possible, I’d say, just as an observer. There are lots of things I’d love to experience for the first time again but I personally have little desire to change the past.
Going forward.
