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The court of Henry the Eighth or Queen Elizabeth 1st reign i would go armed with modren cosmetics and potions and come back laden with gold

Seriously i would love to see what it was like then not only at court but walking around a seeing how people lived.

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I thought if was an April fool spoof?

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Although I've often thought about this, but ancient history's full of dangers for a time traveller. Someone I know was asked at an interview "if you found yourself in Roman times, how would you explain a torch?" Even the most rudimentary knowledge we have now would be mostly impossible to explain without being put to death as some sort of witch or magician.

If I could time travel I think I'd want to be just an onlooker with no actual interaction with people, far safer IMO. There are so many periods of history I'd love to see first hand.

PS The chap being interviewed wasn't able to answer the question, of course.

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Hi

I would love to go back to the time of the dinosaurs.

My weapon of choice would be an armoured personnel carrier with a heavy machine gun and a 30mm canon, with me safe inside it.

I would want to get back in one piece.

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It might be Claire Randall from Outlander, so yes I would go with her and I would only need the one weapon.

Seriously though, yes,I would love to go back in time. Think of all the things you could 'invent'.

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After giving it some thought and considering Eccles post I've come to the conclusion that it would not be necessary to take any weapons or items of personal protection with us should we be able to transport ourselves to a time gone by.

We would simply not be able to interact with other lifeforms or indeed the world around us. Even the smallest of interference by our visit could drastically alter the development of the world including our own future existence.

I believe that it could be possible to focus on past events in the same way one watches a film. You can not alter the progress of the film, you are merely a bystander watching from a different dimension, but with no control over the events. Ah! I hear you say, but you can alter the outcome of a film through editing. You are not altering the original recording though, you are producing another copy, a different copy, the original has been done and saved somewhere. Once a thing has been said or done it can not be unsaid or undone.

Watching historical events that have happened and then being stamped and saved in space and time that could be re-run should we ever be able to build suitable equipment to locate and play back the events. Perhaps it's already being done and we are experiencing visitors from the future, could ghosts be those visitors. Elusive to most, and with no impact on real life except stories that will never be proved....

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If I could go back in time I would go back to 1914-18 and find corporal Hitler and put a Bullet in his head.
Then go back further to find out what really this Jesus bloke was about.

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I haven't got much interest in going back in time, the future would be more interesting. However, as I had to put up with hearing about that guy, Jesus, throughout my childhood it would interesting to discover what the real Jesus was actually like.

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That's a good plan Emjay. I'll come with you.

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Tempting, Rhian, very tempting.

If I could be certain of a 'return ticket' I would like to visit the Edwardian era - for the elegance and good manners, the Tudor era - for the politics, the early 1920s for the exquisite fashions, and the era of the Industrial Revolution - for the sheer wonder and excitement of all those new discoveries !

I don't do weapons!!

All that - and back in time to feed the cats would be excellent!!