As some of you know, I'm working on a novel that involves a society where time travel is a norm. I have a few opinion questions I would love to get feedback on to help me develop how various people within that society might feel regarding the existence and usage of time travel.
Note: My novel deals with the concept of Eternalism; essentially, "that time is just another dimension, that future events are 'already there', and that there is no objective flow of time." That is the philosophy of time I am using to make time travel possible. This is not Back To The Future; you cannot kill your parents then die because of it. (I know that's not actually how Back to the Future worked ) For those of you who watched Lost - it works a bit like that. Please keep this fact in mind when answering your questions because such things like, "I would kill Hitler" doesn't work. In my novel, if you went back in time and killed Hitler, this would have always been the case. But, something would have happened like, you tried to killed Hitler, but your gun failed. Or, Hitler died, but someone else took his place and so WWII and the Holocaust still occurred.
(I really hope all that made sense!) Anyway, to the questions I would love a reply to. Let's say you're a member of this society where you have free access to time travel.
1. Where would you travel to?
2. Would you time travel for vacation?
3. Would you ever consider moving, and living the rest of your life out, in a different time period?
4. Would you be concerned with the safety of time travel, or accept the government's word that it's safe?
5. Do you have any moral/philosophical/other reasons why you would disagree with time travel, and humanity's ability to do so?
6. Would you worry that time traveling could pose some health risk to you or others that the government has yet to discover because it hasn't existed for a long enough time period? (say, 20 years)
7. What reason might you decide to continue living in the "present" instead of time traveling? (different from Q5 in that this might be a more personal, physical thing - family, friends, you're used to that style of living.)
8. What regulations, if any, do you think the government should place on one's abbility time traveling? What kind of "policing" should be done?
I think those are all the questions I've come up with for now! If you have any questions regarding the time travel theories or what have you, well, go ahead and ask but I can't promise a logical, scientific answer. I mean it is science fiction, after all.
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