Hi Guys,

 

I am new here and was looking for some advice and help.

 

Pretend "IF" I was able to create a time travel device and I could travel backwards in time. Only backwards and only 2 minutes (Closed time curve of 112.3 seconds).

 

What could I do?

 

I can't get the the shops to buy a lottery ticket obviously...

 

Also why would I be limited to such a short curve?

maybe play poker? You have the time machine or theory how to construct?

Time is not just time. It is spacetime. If you change time backwards, you also change space backwards. And your brain is part of space.

So, when you arrive back in time, you will have no clue what happened, because your brain does not remember the future!

Edited March 28, 20196 yr by QuantumT

On 10/8/2016 at 2:36 AM, EdwardWeise said:

Also why would I be limited to such a short curve?

Because you invented the rule. 

9 hours ago, QuantumT said:

Time is not just time. It is spacetime. If you change time backwards, you also change space backwards. And your brain is part of space.

So, when you arrive back in time, you will have no clue what happened, because your brain does not remember the future!

Exactly. And getting back in time you would be younger. In no case you would be a double of yourself, observing yourself. You would be the one & same individual, younger, with no clue of what happened.

The problem in the scenario is what happen to the future? Will you disappear from the future? That does not sound reasonable. The time travel concept has that kind of issues.

18 hours ago, QuantumT said:

Time is not just time. It is spacetime. If you change time backwards, you also change space backwards. And your brain is part of space.

So, when you arrive back in time, you will have no clue what happened, because your brain does not remember the future!

As we are discussing fiction, I think the OP can make up whatever rules they want.

On 10/7/2016 at 9:36 PM, EdwardWeise said:

Pretend "IF" I was able to create a time travel device and I could travel backwards in time. Only backwards and only 2 minutes (Closed time curve of 112.3 seconds).

 

What could I do?

 

I can't get the the shops to buy a lottery ticket obviously...

 

Also why would I be limited to such a short curve?

Because that is how the movie Next was written.  You are talking about the Nicolas Cage movie, right?

I also think you meant go forward in time unless you are making a movie that is the opposite of the movie Next!

On 10/8/2016 at 3:36 AM, EdwardWeise said:

What could I do?

...you could do paradox..