I do find this a very interesting topic, though not really for talking about where I'd go in history, but the whole physics of it.
In the event that we could go back in time one day, surely no great events in history will be changed, or it would have happened already? The future people would have gone back earlier than the current date and already changed things, wouldn't they? Or would they...?
Do we need to first invent the machine to change the past, surely that can't be right because they would still have gone back and done it, so any changes should be done! Mind boggling, like the chicken and egg debate.
Another thought: perhaps changes are going on as we talk. If history were changed, our memories would surely adapt to the changes. Things we'd learnt as children would have been learnt differently, so we'd have no idea changes were going on, as our collective memories are altered. If changes are made, we'll never know it.
Finally, and perhaps most confusingly, what is time anyway? We talk about the past, but it no longer exists except in memory. The future doesn't exist either, as it hasn't happened yet. As for what we call the present, it doesn't exist either, as we are continually shifting and advancing in time, there are no single moments but only an unerring forward motion. So do we even exist, and if so, when?
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