I’m a representative of the year 2056.
I will answer your questions regarding my timeline, aspects of time travel, etc.
I will only answer serious type questions, because I am very serious.
I posted a question last week.
When were you born? What would happen if you killed your mother prior to that date?
I posted a question next week.
Kal:
Maybe in your unaltered timeline. Whenever I time travel, it makes small ripples amongst the timeline in which I enter, causing divergence in the events of this timeline, also causing divergent timelines to pop up, thankfully with no major changes caused to them. Please restate the question as this version of me has yet to see the question. I only arrived in this timeline 5 days ago.
Maybe another me answered it. If so, I hope it was done correctly, as it should be with all versions of me.
Flux You sound like you are speaking microsoft.
I was born on July 6th, 2030 at 3:45 PM.
As I said, when people time travel, ripples occur. Even when we time travel only, say, a year ago, we encounter changes in the timeline. Subtle things, such as people being born a day off in that timeline(going by our records, of course), stuff like that. We’ve conducted (minute experiments but detectable enough to see if anything has changed as this is still a new technology, and we don’t want to destroy our world) and have yet to experince any changes in this timeline due to the percent of divergence caused by our equipment.
The rate of divergence caused by time travel is only 3.2%(up to 50 years, afterwards it starts to fluctuate wildly due to the machine not being able to handle going back that far). That said, I would still exist because my self had not died(or rather ceased to exist), but rather that reality’s me due to the divergence. As this technology is new, the ability to travel with equipment that does not cause a divergence % of .2(the .2% is included in the above figure) or a 3% based solely on the way the traveling actually occurs is currently not avaliable.
From an objective point, what would my reasons to do so be?
I have not experinced any sort of next week, having not traveled there. I must request you post it now, as any time travel to whenever you asked it next week might alter the question, or you might not ask it at all.
Not accounting for the fact me coming here likely changed the nature of your question now greatly from the one you asked next week. You might have not even thought of it yet until that time next week you asked it, and thus it is a completely different one from that.
I’m sorry if I am confusing you, I doubt you’re accustomed to understanding the ways of time travel, right?
This time traveler needs sleep.
I shall be gone for a few hours whilst I slumber.
Please ask many, many questions while I am doing so.
Who was on the grassy knoll?
Is your time travel machine powered by leaded, unleaded or methane?
Do you wear a tin foil hat?
Who won the Oscar for best actor in 2007?
What were the highest odds on any winner of the Grand National between 2005 and 2056, and what was the name of the horse?
Should I go long on copra futures?
Do people have hovercars in the year 2056?
Did I achieve my plan to rule the world?
Can you supply a list of lotto results for the next 53 years? My plan for world domination relies on having a bit of money behind me.
Can I have a go on your time machine? I won’t steal it. Honest.
Did the British royal family get replaced by Disney animatronics?
Are the Red Hot Chili Peppers still popular?
how’s the war going ?
Can I borrow your time machine?
a real time traveller properly committede to this sort of discussion would sleep for a few hours, then return back to before he went asleep to continue the discussion.
You #are a fraud and I demand my £5 back.
Yeah but, like, ripples and stuff.
Do the Lions ever win the Superbowl?
Who are the celebrities to die over the next 25 years, so that I may ‘stuff’ my Dead Pool List and acheive immortality at last.
Does Keith Richards ever die?
What coporation that in 2003 does not yet exist should I invest in?
Who wins the next presidential election?
Who wins the next Super Bowl?
What is the nature of the Internet and computing technology in 2056?
What has been the biggest medical breakthrough between now and 2056?
Has there been any breakthroughs in the area of string theory, and if so, what are they? (A legit time traveler should definitely know the answer to this one.)
What has been the biggest change in professional sports between now and 2056?
What has been the biggest change in entertainment technology between now and 2056?
What is a technology that is in commonplace use in 2056 that no one is even contemplating of inventing today? (There’s a good reason for asking this question…no one contemplated DVDs, the World Wide Web, or cellular phones fifty-three years ago.)