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Let's say "hypothetically" you could travel back in time to any specific point, and change it to what you wanted. But you could only go back for a single day, so you could only change one event, or series of events over the course of a day. And to make it more interesting, it couldn't be something in your own life. time causality prevents you from changing your past(grandfather clause, etc) So what would it be?
What made me think of this was a twilight zone episode I saw. Where this woman went back in time kill to Hitler as a baby. She sucessfully posed as a nanny, and eventually kidnapped the child. The housekeeper sees her and chases her,and the rush to do the job, she jumped over a bridge and drowned with the Hitler child.
What happened next was an interesting twist. the housekeeper turns to this homeless woman and her child, pays her for the child and passes the child off as the Hitler baby. the mother of this child is mentally lacking. This of course becomes the Adolf we all know and love. So in killing the REAL Adolf, she fulfills history and a mentally deprived hitler rises to power.
So i guess my question is two-fold. What would you change, and how could you be certain that the event you changed, occurred BECAUSE of your time travel, and not because you hadn't changed it. So you may travel back, change the event, and come back to find things the same, because in doing this, you completed the timeline cycle.
Wasn't sure where to put this post, so here it sits
What made me think of this was a twilight zone episode I saw. Where this woman went back in time kill to Hitler as a baby. She sucessfully posed as a nanny, and eventually kidnapped the child. The housekeeper sees her and chases her,and the rush to do the job, she jumped over a bridge and drowned with the Hitler child.
What happened next was an interesting twist. the housekeeper turns to this homeless woman and her child, pays her for the child and passes the child off as the Hitler baby. the mother of this child is mentally lacking. This of course becomes the Adolf we all know and love. So in killing the REAL Adolf, she fulfills history and a mentally deprived hitler rises to power.
So i guess my question is two-fold. What would you change, and how could you be certain that the event you changed, occurred BECAUSE of your time travel, and not because you hadn't changed it. So you may travel back, change the event, and come back to find things the same, because in doing this, you completed the timeline cycle.
Wasn't sure where to put this post, so here it sits