Hmm, why necessary different country? Why not same country?
Anyay - with the knowledge from the future, you could definitely attempt to rule even different (but same race) country.

Well, same country then, but your speaking would still sound weird, although you can always say to be some hillbilly and you just talk like that.

Yeah, that knowledge thing is great fantasy, but in reality it wouldn't be that easy. There would be already established power structures and usually people tend to cling to the power. Instead of cheering your wisdom the king or whatever may just behead you as a dangerous rivalry.

Also at the times of inherited positions, your knowledge doesn't matter that much anyways. You are just some bastard like many other.

ill take it back to 96

forward, you cant do anything about the past :2 cents:

Time travel is only possible to the "future". You cannot travel backwards in time and never will be able to. :2 cents:

the future

I get the novelty of it all but physics prevents you from going back and as for going forward...you already are make the most of it

You really only need to go forward a month or two. All the sports bets, all stock movement. You'd have to stay within a short time span. Sports bets are pretty easy to multiply fast when you absolutely know the outcome. Do your sports bets the first week. Roll it over into buying whatever stocks have a big increase over the rest of the month. If done right can be set for life in a month or two and it will all look like a run of good luck. :winkwink:

Hawking believes time travel is possible but only in one direction - forward. He supposes a spacecraft that could travel at a speed approaching the speed of light - 12 years to reach 98% light speed, at that point each day on the spacecraft would be one earth year.

Kind of a cheesy kind of time travel - much easier I think for us to figure out how to freeze people and then awaken them in the future. His scenario is some epic disaster that destroys humanity where these time travellers would return to Earth to repopulate it. If I were on that spaceship I'd want no part of that job, starting human civilization from scratch in god knows what kind of environment the planet would be in would be a nightmare.

I still really don't have a handle on the concept of 'time' the way physicists think of it. To me it's man made concept, we decided one revolution of the earth, sunrise to sunrise, is one day/24 hours. That time is slower/faster for different observers doesn't seem like such a major scientific breakthrough to me but when I read about Einstein's theories of relativity it's lauded as an incredible leap forward that we've reaped a ton of technological advancements from.

I would go back to any time prior to 1969... So I could have met my father. He died when I was nine months old.

1000 or 10000 years forward. I would like to travel in space, solar system, etc