If you could travel back in time...

[n0jaa]

For me, I think the one person I would most want to meet would be Agatha Christie. #She was a top notch mystery writer. #Some people have referred to her as the "first lady of mystery." #There's even an award named after her, called the "Agatha Award," which is basically the mystery equivalent of a Hugo or a Pulitzer.

Ms. Christie wrote many mystery stories about one of my favorite fictional sleuths, Hercule Poirot. #I also quite enjoy Miss Marple.

I enjoy Hercule Poirot for his "dapperness" (is that a word?), the tedious way he attends to his moustaches, and the way he works his "little gray cells."

I enjoy Miss Marple because she is a sleuth who isn't really a sleuth. #Instead of actively sniffing out clues, she lets the clues come to her.

These are the reasons why I would want to meet Agatha Christie if I could travel back in time.

Who would you most like to meet if you could travel back in time?


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[w0aew]

I'd like to meet myself, around 1967, to warn me against doing all those stupid things I would do in '68, '69, '70, and '71.

Then again, knowing me, I wouldn't have listened. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[k6pme]

Thomas Jefferson.

[KI4NNL]

You beat me to it, I would love to meet Jefferson.

[k6pme]

Great Statesman http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[KA9VQF]

If I could I would like to meet with Albert Einstein and maybe have a beer.

[kb0yup]

Tesla

[AB1FV]

I would like to meet Bill Gates, circa 1978, and talk over some great stock tips with his "new" company!
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[kl7aj]

Michael Faraday

[w9dms]

I would want to meet my father. Just so I could tell hoim to invest in certain companies. I know that money can not buy happiness, but it sure would make being miserable easier.

But actually I really don't think there is any one person I would ike to meet. I would like to go back and be able to live through certain events just to experience them first hand. Things like the landing of Apollo 11 or seeing the Titanic before she sunk(actually before she sailed would probably be better).

Well that would be the thing for me events not people.

[wa4brl]

Quote[/b] (w0aew @ July 20 2006,10:20)]I'd like to meet myself, around 1967, to warn me against doing all those stupid things I would do in '68, '69, '70, and '71.

Then again, knowing me, I wouldn't have listened. # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
I'd also pay me a visit, at about age 14 or 15. I'd punch me straight in the mouth and MAKE me listen to a few things, I would! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif


Otherwise, either Copernicus or Ernie Kovaks.

[K1OU]

Jesus, so I could tell him to watch out for Republicans.

[ai4ep]

go back to around 1958 in the Bankhead NAtional Forest, and walk & drive on the "old " version of a road (CRANAL ROAD ) which got shortened and upgraded starting around 1960 . Original version was narrow, crooked, and rough to drive on ( werent they all back then ? ) ..also about 25 - 26 miles long...shortened to just over 11 miles long now.

Plus back then there were deer all over the place, foxes, and other varmits all over the forest..mebbe even a bear or two to see tracks of.

I would only need to go back for a week or two...no I wouldnt be meeting myself.

Also would like to see the " olden days of television " when stations actually went OFF THE AIR between Midnight and 6 am ...cb was quieter...and amateurs were all nice to each other...and HF nets actually passed IMPORTANT traffic, since there were no computers / cell phones / satellites / etc.

But--no microwave suppers.

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (kb0yup @ July 20 2006,11:33)]Tesla
Agreed. I would like to be able to go back to when he was performing his famous Colorado Springs experiments.

[kf6rdn]

Jesus.

"Bub, you've got some 'splainin to do, here speak into this microphoney looking thing".
(He's God's son so he will understand microphones)
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[ve2nsm]

My ancestors, probably my great grand fathers.

[al2i]

I'd like to go back and visit myself when I was about 16. I think one look at what I've become and I would've been scared straight.

[K5UOS]

Thomas A. Edison and Doug De Maw, W1FB (SK)...two unique and clever individuals.

Seeing Edison's lab in its heyday would have been very interesting.

De Maw took "complex" principles and made them seem simple. With his presentation and teaching style he was responsible for enticing many hams to learn how to build their own scratch gear.

K5UOS

[VE7NOT]

Many times I thought about that.

I would go back in time into say my 17-18 year old boy and relive the past 10 years . Most of the decistions would stay the same but some would sure change and I would get to do jumps with my old VW rabbit again. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Seriously though knowing what my father died of if I could go back there is a fair chance I could have aded a few years on to his life.

Also knowing code at 5 wpm now I would go back and take the test again only this time getting hf privalages years ago. Not only that but the summer that saw meteor showers, auroua and tropo at the samwe time in 98 I would have had an all mode 2m rig with a beam.

I might have even been able to save my foster daughters parents if I had know about it.

Also I might have stayed in the logging industry

I would also make sure my mother never sold the house after my after died.

And I would have started saving for a piece of land in central america earlier too.

So much to do. Maybe I would go back 15 years
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[KI4ITV]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ July 20 2006,07:09)]I'd like to go back and visit myself when I was about 16. #I think one look at what I've become and I would've been scared straight.
Nice thought.
I would also go back and try to talk some sense into myself. #I was having waaay tooo much fun. #Would have to find a day when I wasn't partying hard though, and that could take a while. #Wouldn't do any good if I just shrugged myself off or stopped to burn one. #On second thought, maybe thats not such a good idea #

Another one for Thomas Jefferson, and toss in a Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Paine while I'm in the era.

[KA8DKT]

He has already been mentioned, but I'd put my vote in for Thomas Jefferson.
Brilliant man with a brilliant vision.
-gary

[n0jaa]

Tallying things up so far, let's see what we have (just FYI)...

Themself: 5
Thomas Jefferson: 5
Nikola Tesla: 2
Their Father: 2
Jesus Christ: 2
Agatha Christie: 1
Albert Einstein: 1
Bill Gates (?): 1
Michael Faraday: 1
Copernicus: 1
Ernie Kovacs: 1
Their Great Grand Father(s): 1
Thomas Edison: 1
Doug DeMaw, W1FB: 1
Benjamin Franklin: 1
Thomas Paine: 1


Lots of interesting choices!

[k0ews]

Interesting responses. In a class today, we were doing an exercise much like this. It was an activity on forming discussions. One of the questions we came up with was much like this, but another one was even more interesting to me:

If you could go back and remove from existance any one person in the history of the world, that would benefit the world, who would THAT be? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[KI4ITV]

Quote[/b] (k0ews @ July 20 2006,08:50)]<snip>
If you could go back and remove from existance any one person in the history of the world, that would benefit the world, who would THAT be? #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Carl Marx- to pretty up the past.
Mohammed- to pretty up the future.

[W2LYS]

I wouldn't mind meeting my grandfather - I never have. I have his call sign though.

I also wouldn't mind going back in time and getting myself to NOT meet a certain person...

[W0UZR]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ July 20 2006,09:10)]Topic: If you could travel back in time..., What one person would you want to meet?
Jesus

[ai4ep]

a person who can sell me some stock in an oil company at 1962 prices.

MAn I would be rich now. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[W0UZR]

Buying some stocks in McDonnalds if there was any would put you in good shape.

[kf5er]

I would like to meet my great grand father. But what if accidently did something stupid that caused his death?

[N0KLT]

There are so many from the past I would love to meet for a variety of reasons.

From past writers: Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hemmingway, Doyle, Hammitt, Poe, R. L. Stevenson, Shel Silverstein for a few.

Politicians/statemen: Truman, Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Adlai E. Stevenson, Herbert Hoover, the Long family out of Lousiana in their hayday, Churchill for starters.

Historical figures that are not any of the above : Lewis and Clark, Wild Bill Hickock, Davy Crockett, Santa Anna(just to hear his side of the Alamo story), Napoleon Bonapart, Guy Fawkes, any of the leaders of the Crusades and particularly any of the last leaders of the Knights Templars, Marco Polo, King Solomon, Pontius Pilate (just to get his side of the story), and a whole host of minor characters throughout time who witnessed or took place in events that made or changed history.

Of course meeting all these people would be contingent upon our being able to speak the same language, so the magic transporting me to the past should have a translation feature built in. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KA9VQF]

Quote[/b] (w0uzr @ July 20 2006,14:48)]Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ July 20 2006,09:10)]Topic: If you could travel back in time..., What one person would you want to meet?
Jesus
Supposedly you can do that anytime, just join a church. You will meet him and he will be your personal savior.

Be the first on your block to have your own personal Jesus.
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[KD6NIG]

My grandfather on my mom's side. #He died when I was about 6, but from what I heard about him, I would definetely have loved to sit down with him as an adult and have a long conversation with him.

He is definetely missed.

[k9kxq]

If I could travel back I would want to see my Mother and Father, so I could tell them both all the things I could not say at their death bed.

God bless them both I miss them so...

kxq

[KE5FWX]

Jesus

[w5klb]

James Clerk Maxwell.

[n2nh]

Raquel Welch.

<self explanatory> Hmmmmmmm..... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[kg4llq]

I'd want to sit down and have a heart to heart talk with Moses!
I'd tell him he was destined to wander the middle east for years and years after he led his people out of Egypt. #Once the journey was over that please, please settle in Arabia where there was buried deep underground a foul smelling black liquid called oil. #That it wouldn't mean much to him at the time; but boy would it help his people and his people's friends 4,000 years hence!

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (kf5er @ July 20 2006,18:09)]I would like to meet my great grand father. #But what if accidently did something stupid that caused his death?
A very interesting question that theoretical physicists call the "Grandfather Paradox." #However, if you accept the theory of complementary time travel as fact, then that would not be possible (conditionally). #

According to the theory, an atom experiences an infinite number of states in an infinite number of parallel universes. #So the theory conjectures that if you were to go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father was born, you would be affecting the time line in another universe other than the one in which you exist. #You would cease to exist in another universe, but the universe in which you reside would not be affected.

Bascially what that means is that there are an infinite number of parallel universes, and in each of those universes resides a unique KF5ER, let's say, for the sake of argument, KF5ER/1. #Therefore, any affect of time travel would affect KF5ER/2 in another alternate universe, whereas KF5ER/1 would be relatively unaffected. In other words, you cannot travel back in time in your own time line; instead, you would branch off into another time line, in another universe, and anything you do or not do affects only that time line/universe, not the one from which you came. Likewise, when you traveled back to your own time, you would go back to YOUR universe; your unique state would not allow you to remain in the other universe. Of course, all that is changed if you meet yourself in the other universe; the two states would be mutually incompatible and annihilate each other.

To conclude, the theory says that you exist in an infinite number of states in an infinite number of universes. #You may exist in other universes as a tailor, a baker, an electronics technician, a bus driver, a Hitler, a Freud, a Bush (heaven forbid!), or in some universes you might not exist at all, or you met some untimely end, or you have not yet been born.

Part of this theory is based in the thought of people who have thought (as you and I have probably done), "What would I be doing now if I had done this or not done that, or taken this course," etc., etc. #The theory states that all of these possibilities have happened, are happening, or will happen in other universe states.

Probably the best movie (albeit sci-fi) that explains this is "Back to the Future Part II." #Keep an eye out for Doc Brown's explanation of alternate time lines.

I didn't intend to get so theoretical, but, there it is. # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

Edited for clarity (maybe) and other stuff.

[N0KLT]

An addition to my earlier list, I don't know the person or persons names but I would love to go back to the time of the building of the Sphynx and find out what the heck that is all about. Why that combination and place and what was it for?

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif It might be interesting to go back in time and tell some of you folks parents about how their children ( YOU ) would turn out if things aint changed. Might be fewer LIDS on the airwaves / internet now if things had been changed.

[N7RJD]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ July 21 2006,09:55)]An addition to my earlier list, I don't know the person or persons names but I would love to go back to the time of the building of the Sphynx and find out what the heck that is all about. Why that combination and place and what was it for?
What? Never seen a sandcastle gone bad before? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[ai4ep]

Plus go back around 1985 and advise the FCC against coming up with the N C T system which started in 1991, which was / is a huge mistake.

And advise the FCC to keep the rules back then tough and hard and not take no junk off folks wanting to " dumb down " the rules & regulations of the amateur radio system.

As an example, keep the 20 wpm requirement for EXTRA class, and the 13 wpm requirement for GENERAL class and help keep out SOME of the " riff raff " off the HF portion of the amateur bands, any way.

strange how hindsight is nearly 20/20 so far as the FCC making mistakes with the " dumbing down of amateur radio " .

[N0KLT]

Quote[/b] (KE7DLG @ July 21 2006,17:14)]Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ July 21 2006,09:55)]An addition to my earlier list, I don't know the person or persons names but I would love to go back to the time of the building of the Sphynx and find out what the heck that is all about. Why that combination and place and what was it for?
What? Never seen a sandcastle gone bad before? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Not that bad or on that scale. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC2PFV]

The World's Jesus - No one has shaped world history than this man.
Germany's Hitler - Other side of the spectrum. He caused the world to change totally after his rise and fall and destruction of the "old" world.
Poland's Copernicus or Italy's Michelangelo or England's Newton - Where would we be without them? Modern science.

Hmmmm... I think it's clear Jesus represents the world the most, 'eh? Whether or not these people were good or evil, they changed our world greatly. Jesus is very cliche? Who would want to talk to Hitler? Ancient scientists? Look around you and you'll find the answers.

-KC2PFV

[N7RJD]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ July 21 2006,10:15)]Quote[/b] (KE7DLG @ July 21 2006,17:14)]Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ July 21 2006,09:55)]An addition to my earlier list, I don't know the person or persons names but I would love to go back to the time of the building of the Sphynx and find out what the heck that is all about. Why that combination and place and what was it for?
What? Never seen a sandcastle gone bad before? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
Not that bad or on that scale. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I know what you mean. That has actually been one that has always left me wondering too. It would be something to be able to see back and witness the design and building processes.

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ July 21 2006,14:55)]An addition to my earlier list, I don't know the person or persons names but I would love to go back to the time of the building of the Sphynx and find out what the heck that is all about. Why that combination and place and what was it for?
The strange, pale foreigner appeared just as Amap was deciding who would be glorified by fire before The Great One. As the screams finally ended, a wonderful, golden sunset gave testament that he had chosen wisely.

[kf6snj]

I would want to meet my great grandfather Juline S. Ness back when he was an active amateur operator (I understand his call was w9chg, sometime around the 1930's and 1940's if I remember right).

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (k0ews @ July 20 2006,12:50)]If you could go back and remove from existance any one person in the history of the world, that would benefit the world, who would THAT be?
My ex wife?
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[XV2PS]

ep

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[KA7RRA]

I would like to go back int o the 70's and do it over again
the music was so much better than what it is today

[K8EEI]

I would like to go back and meet some of you fine gentlemen before you did all those drugs .... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ka5s]

Adam.



Cortland
KA5S

[ky5u]

Paul Tibbits

[n0jaa]

I'd have liked to meet Marlin Perkins. When I was a kid, me and my dad watched his "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" every Saturday. I thought it was the greatest program on TV at the time!

I don't know which I liked better: the animals out in the wild, or Marlin's white hair and moustache!

[W0UZR]

I wouldn't mind going back a couple of days with the power ball numbers written on a slip of paper in my pocket that no one won the other day at $125,000,000.00

[GM3ZMA]

I would go back and get Jesus and Mohammed, bang their heads together and tell them:
"Cool it dudes! Over the next couple of thousand years, millions of people are going to get killed and all because of what you guys are preaching".

Jim GM3ZMA

[ab8ro]

Great little book.

[k9kxq]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ July 23 2006,09:55)]I'd have liked to meet Marlin Perkins. When I was a kid, me and my dad watched his "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" every Saturday. I thought it was the greatest program on TV at the time!

I don't know which I liked better: the animals out in the wild, or Marlin's white hair and moustache!
Brings back memories Paul, but wasn't that aired on Sundays? me and my dad would watch it too, he was always off on the weekends...

kxq

[K8ERV]

I would like to speak at a meeting with the early IBM people, and show them what a "modern" computer and hard disc evolved to. And to sell them some new underpants.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[k8pg]

PEAKING MAN:p

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (k9kxq @ July 25 2006,08:00)]Brings back memories Paul, but wasn't that aired on Sundays? me and my dad would watch it too, he was always off on the weekends...

kxq
Maybe it was Sundays, I couldn't remember. My memory is rather fuzzy that far back!!

[n0jaa]

I'd like to go back to that place that was "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."

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[KI4BNC]

Quote[/b] (KE5FWX @ July 21 2006,07:26)]Jesus
Same here.

[W0UZR]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ July 25 2006,12:08)]I'd like to go back to that place that was "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."

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Oh? That's where you or your ansesters came from?