If you were offered a Quantum Leap back into any year of your life would you take it?

[USS Firefly]

Ofcourse I would. I would love to do my my late teens early twenties over. Make sure I have more money, take better education. Visit my grandparents who back then all lived. Take more risk with woman, because I was a shy person back then, especially with my ex girlfriend. Enjoying extra doing stuf with my friends

 

[somebuddyX]

But then who knows? Maybe stopping 9/11 leads to unpredictable events one doesn't know.

That's what I mean. It would be like the most valuable item on Earth for a little while until people start using the information to change the timeline.

 

[Oddish]

It might be doable. I know the date, and the name of the head hijacker (Mohommed Atta), and that he and his collegues were in commercial pilot school. And I would be an adult at that point, so people might take me seriously. I could probably stop Oklahoma City as well. But unfortunately, I think the Challenger would be inevitable. NASA just wouldn't listen to a 14-year-old squawking about O-rings and cold weather.

 

[JD]

In the 80s and 90s it would probably be some fringe book that maybe has a cult following that grows steadily. But once the internet takes off, man, that book is going to be legendary. If you went back in time now, what events could you name off the top of your head and when exactly? When did the Berlin Wall come down? When was Tiananmen Square? When did Gulf War start? I know there was a Boxing Day tsunami but I forget which year? When was the DC sniper? Also what happens when you do alter everything so much, say stop 9/11, that everything becomes unpredictable? I would be the most useless time traveller. If I was stuck in the past I would try to change it so much I would get new content. No 9/11 and maybe we get Bryan Singer's Battlestar Galactica and different later seasons of Enterprise.

I would never try to change any big events, I've seen too many TV episodes and movies where that kind of thing backfires and makes things even worse.

 

[theenglish]

I would not try to change big events because there are just too many variables. If this were only about changing personal events, I would go back to the first Sunday in August 2009, in the morning just as I am tying my new running shoes to go out for a walk with my family and a bit of a run. No more details to be provided, but you can see I've thought about this.

 

[Jayson1]

Changing a small event will change the big events. That is called the, butterfly effect. The thing is that if one were to go back one must also embrace the idea that they will forever be stuck in this alternate timeline they will have created by going back in time. You would never see any of your friends and family again. You would see the altered versions of them that would change with the timeline but if you have any children or nieces or nephews that were born after you arrival they will simply never be born in this new timeline. Going back in time is not to different than taking a one way trip to a alien planet to live the rest of your life. It might be worth it, due to the adventure of it all and it would be a experience shared by no other human being, but their of course would be that price you have to pay for doing it.