Attempted murder in my own home.
"If you could travel back in time to a past version of yourself, and only had a small gap of time to give yourself a few parting words of wisdom, what would you tell yourself, and when in your life would you be telling it to?"
I'd say this:
"Don't start smoking or you'll regret it".
There was no consquence. The guy I tried to kill never reported me.
The reason it was still a mistake though is because I acted on impulse. Had I been successfull in killing him, I would never had gotten away with it, because people had seen him enter my home earlier that day.
by TurncoatIf you could travel back in time to a past version of yourself, and only had a small gap of time to give yourself a few parting words of wisdom, what would you tell yourself, and when in your life would you be telling it to?
Was watching cartoons when I saw this scenario come up, and realized I'm not entirely sure what I'd say. My past self was so different.
It wouldn't be a good idea to intervene with the past. I don't think our brain would handle rewriting a memory of meeting our past self for starters, then there would be all of this paradox nonesense, and we'd lose experience. It's really no different than erasing your memory and fulling your head with different things. Not all that appealing.
If it were like the movies where things change except the travellers memory, better be prepared for major changes just like what happened to Mcfly. It can even be a nightmare, coming home somewhere else, to a monster with some rotten kids asking you "what's the matter, you're different."
Unless you traveling back in time was supposed to happen to create the timeline we all know and love (determinism).
Or unless you believe in a multiple universes theory, where you traveling through time simply creates a tangent universe, leaving the original one undisturbed (and offering protection from paradoxes).
Ha ha ha. Paradox protection sounds cool. Ok so let's scrap string theory's 11 dimension multiverse, and go with a genuine copy of time and space that has been created upon the time traveller's arrival. One can give advice and warnings to their alternate self, but it wouldn't matter for when the traveller returns to their time and place. In any case, I'd rather be the one who is visited by myself from the future. I think we can listen to avoid error, but nothing beats pulling it off for ourselves. If say, I did everything alternate me suggested, then I'd be in a position to either thank or blame that other me. It would be intetesting and obsurd if the alternate me from the future returned, cause he'd already altered not just my life, but the course of this entire universe, at that point, his (my) return would be for the sake of curiousity. At the least, I trust future me would be sure to provide present me with some major jackpot date with numbers, just to see if the lottary is a sham. It's not that I'm greedy, I'd have a little fun with expensive things in a blue moon, but for me, having all that extra coin would mean I have more work on my hands. For that reason I'd cheat, so long as there are no time cops that would come for me. I'm sure time or dimensional modification would be a crime that leads to the death penalty.