LETS GOOOOOOOO (General hangout thread)

So time travel. Cool, right? Nope, and unless we can make Time Travel without altering the past, time travel cannot be open to the public for multiple reasons:

1): This is kind of narcissistic, but some rich douchebag is going to go to the first ever humans and snipe all of them. What i'm saying is that there's always going to be that one person who is going to kill all of humanity. And they don't even have to do it on purpose! Wanna know what I mean?

2): Cause and effect is one of the biggest reasons we're what we are. Small things could lead to the future changing. Need an example?

Pretend you go back to 1957 in Liverpool, England. You're running down the street when you meet this nice man. You quickly become friends and you take him to a nice restaurant to have dinner. Seems ok, right?

Well, did you think that that would cause Rolling Stone's #1 album of all time to never been made, or The Beatles to never exist? Here, let me explain:

Paul McCartney meets John Lennon at a concert -> Paul joins the band. -> Ringo and George join. -> The Beatles rename and release their first album. -> They become extremely popular an release Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band. -> Rolling Stone puts SPLHCB at #1 on their greatest albums of all time list.

Imagine these as dominos that gradually grow. It starts with a small event, that leads to a cultural shift and an icon of a band. But, because you took Paul to the dinner, that first event never existed, which means the others never existed. Now, because you interfered, here's what happened:

Paul McCartney never meets John Lennon at a concert, as he was eating dinner -> Paul never joins the band -> The songwriting partners of John and Paul never exist, which considering a lot of early hits were written by Pul, could mean "The Beatles" (Or as they were called at the time, "The Quarrymen") never got big.

Now, you might be wondering, it's not likely that i'm gonna meet a big, famous, celebrity.

Well, that doesn't matter either. One person's cause will somehow lead to another persons effect, and so on and so on. You've probably never met a famous person before, but there is a good chance you have affected one, through primary or secondary contact.

Imagine this, you're in the far off year of 2013. You do a simple task, which...of course, leads to the future changing. Not always is it going to be a big change, but if you interact with the past long enough, something big will change.

Like imagine this timeline of cause and effect:

You get off of school late -> During that time, your older sister, in the car waiting for you, turns on her phone and looks at a YouTube video of a medium-sized creator (About 10K Subs). -> She likes, subscribes, and comments, and reccomends it to her friends. -> One of her friends sees the channel creator is going to a convention in California. -> She takes a long time getting her bags checked, making another man late. -> That man meets the love of his life while waiting for the next flight. -> they have a baby, who grows up to be the boss and CEO of a big company named BlendForge Smoothies.

Now, just think, if you go on time, your sister will never see the video, which will then leave the baby never born, which will leave BlendForge Smoothies never made.

So how do we stop this from happening? Well, we have two answers: The Sci-Fi answer and the Tech answer.

The Sci-Fi answer is to somehow go to the past in a way where we don't change it. While this answers the what, the tech answer answers the how:

It's pretty simple. We create accurate depictions of real-life events using animations and virtual reality, giving the illusion of "Traveling Time".

So, while you may actually be able to travel time, don't think TARDIS, think Oculus.