If you had a Time Machine, Which person you will go back and kill in History?

I will kill Muhammad.

 

You're so far are winning the most unintellectual P&R thread of the year award 2011.

 

Beating Israeli's? quite an accomplishment!

 

I agree I thought it was impossible, he/she just disproved that theory.

 

Going back in time and changing things would cause a paradox (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox)

One of them being that if you would to kill someone back in time, that person would have never done what caused you to travel back in time and kill them, meaning that there was no reason for you to travel back in time in the first place.

There are other theories as well, some which seem quite possible to me:

Either that even though it might be possible to travel back in time, you cannot change things or interact with your environment in any way but just "see" things. Kind of like being in "read only" mode.

Or the "multiple universe" theory. If you change something in the past, it will spin off an alternate reality based on the action that you have done. However, YOU would stay in your own universe and thus would not be able to see the effects of the actions that you have taken (unless there is also some way of traveling to that alternate universe.... but that's another story).

 

I cant believe nobody said Hitler yet....... Sad

 

Beirutmarketing - Nice save for an otherwise boring thread. Had a Sci-Fi class years ago (hey, it was a course credit)... and time travel is one of the handful of basic themes in science fiction lit. On a similar note tothe paradox you mentioned... the quirk where changing something minute in an earlier year has a magnified effect later is called the butterfly effect.

The story that comes to mind as a great example is a Ray Bradbury classic short story called "A Sound of Thunder". For anyone here that has an attention span that accommodates reading something more than Muslim VS Everyone threads... you're in luck, his story is available online. Enjoy : A Sound of Thunder ~ Ray Bradbury

 

agree but anyway people love "terminator" series.

personally I rather travel to future, if we have any future!

 

It has to be hitler.

 

I would kill those who corrupted the original message of the Prophets.

 

And then they say that atheists have no sense of morality.

 

I would not really kill them, I'm just answering the question.

 

There's a lot in my list but I will start with George Armstrong Custer ! Har-Har-Har

 

If I could go back in time. I'd go back and change that Mountain Dew thread to Dr. Pepper.
And I'd make White Castle the official food for everything!

 

Why kill dude? I would go back and make love to Marilyn Monroe

 

It is as foolish to think killing someone in the past would be any different than killing someone in the present as a means to change the course of events.

 

you should be scientist then!

 

LOL!

Muhammed was just a guy, like Jesus, like Moses - who might have not even really existed.
Its the anonymous people who succeeded them who invented those pathetic religions and fairy tales centered around these figures.
These people, who wanted to control the masses, are to blame.
Or maybe not to blame? religion played an important role in the development of human culture. But its job is over and it must vanish for mankind to be able to survive.
Its just amazing to see people in the 21th century who still believe in these pathetic and insulting fairy tales. The blessing has become the curse.

 

Hitler or the people who put him in power?