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VASSAR BUSHMILLS's avatar

People do it, or try it, all the time. Rarely for the judgment of third parties.

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Rolando Andrade's avatar

We have the ability to travel back in time whenever we want and thus alter the future. That's easy. You use your memory and analyse the past. You learn lessons and plan for the future differently. It's mostly an emotional process, as we only remember what was emotionally important to us. Anyone can do that. It's another thing to travel back in time and change the present. That's completely different. I have a question about that. If I go back to the past and change the present, I certainly won't still be myself, I won't recognise myself, probably most of the people around me will be different. Time is a continuous line, so if we alter that line, we'll retrace the entire journey after the point where we altered the past. It's very dangerous, it changes everything I am and the whole dynamic of the Universe. So even though I have regrets, changing time and its journey is a very dangerous game. Who can guarantee that I'd come out of that game alive?

So my answer is no, I wouldn't go back to the past to change the present

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