Past event in History

Submitted by Michigan Hocke… on
If you can go back in time and change one historical event which one would it be?

SMart WolveFan

July 18th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^

........but that nerd in you shouldn't believe in the word impossible, just sayin.

 

Even though it is almost certain that matter transference to the past is "impossible" since matter can't escape entrophy, it doesn't mean you cant affect timelines.

Theoretically, if today on July 18th 2015 you effect a certain time in the past, say July 18th, 1932, in effect, you create a timline that has a bubble where two realities exist starting in 1932 (83 years ago) and lasting till 2098 (83 years from now). As long as the total entrophy over the 166 years is the correct amount, the universe would, again theoretically, not care about the different state of the matter.

So maybe the best question would be if you could send a message into the past:

What would that message be?

Who would you send it to?

SMart WolveFan

July 18th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^

With the definitive proof of its impossibility being your infallible logic, I shouldn't of wondered. Sorry God.

 

Of course, just one other thing, you did also create quantum nonlocality which means I can't be certain if ANYTHING ever happens so I'll never be sure I can't change what didn't happen.

 

So explain that......... plus why Einstein's big and little numbers don't add up, black holes. dark energy and the expanding universe. After that I'll just have one or two more questions.

ckersh74

July 18th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^

Every past event is history. /mitch hedburg'd

 

Having Shawn Crable not hit Troy Smith out of bounds.

Get Roy Roundtree into the end zone against Illinois

SAMgO

July 18th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^

I would make the ref call Hancock's 4th (deserved) foul in the first half. How he ended up on his back and someone away from the play on Louisville picked up that foul is beyond me.




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Ray

July 18th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^

I'd have liked to see what Derek Jeter could have done had he stayed at Michigan instead of going to the Yankees. I wish I'd bought Apple in the 90s when it was a buck-something a share. And I think it would have been better for everyone involved had Archduke Franz Ferdinand taken a different route that day.

chatster

July 18th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^

It's hard to choose only one event in history to change, but I'd consider changing the U. S. Supreme Court’s holding in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U. S. 393 (1857) to the following:

  1. Persons of African descent, regardless of how they came to the United States, can become citizens under the U.S. Constitution.
  2. Although the Property Clause of the Constitution generally is applicable to lands possessed at the time of the Constitution’s ratification (1787), Congress has the power to ban slavery in the territories. Although the Missouri Compromise may be constitutional, slavery should be abolished in the United States.
  3. The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment should not prohibit the federal government from freeing slaves brought into federal territories.
What might have happened if the Supreme Court had ruled that slavery was prohibited and that there had been no Civil War in the United States? At the very least, about 620,000 American lives could have been saved.
 
On the Michigan front, among the events I would consider changing are having the losing team win the NCAA Basketball Championship games in 1993 and 2013, the NCAA Softball Championship series in 2015 and the first football game between Michigan and Appalachian State in 2007.

chatster

July 19th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^

Maybe I should've just gone back to game six of the 1986 Major League Baseball World Series and had John McNamara substitute Dave Stapleton for Bill Buckner at first base after the Red Sox took a two-run lead in the top of the tenth inning, or pitch someone other than Calvin Schiraldi to start the bottom of the tenth (and to not bring Schiraldi into the game in the seventh inning of game seven when he gave up three runs to put the Mets up 6-3 while I watched in stunned silence at Shea Stadium.) . . . But then I wouldn't have experienced the joys of 2004, 2007 and 2013 (and the pains of more suffering during 2012 and these past two seasons), and I never would've heard this song:

chatster

July 19th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^

The rights to perpetuate the system of slavery for the Southern states’ economic benefit. No more, no less.
 
Of all the federal laws that existed at that time, I don’t recall reading or hearing much about the Southern states -- during the period between the Dred Scott Decision in March 1857 and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 -- wanting to nullify any federal laws other than one that might abolish slavery if it were enacted.
 
It’s true that John C. Calhoun’s notion of nullification would have allowed states to ignore federal laws with which they disagreed, such as the Tariff of 1828 that led Calhoun to write his anonymously penned “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” in December 1828 and resign as Andrew Jackson's Vice President the following year.
 
But by 1857 when the Dred Scott case was decided, thanks to Kentucky Senator Henry Clay’s intervention, it had been 24 years since (a) a compromise tariff had been imposed and (b) South Carolina had repealed its nullification ordinances.
 
The election of Abraham Lincoln, considered an abolitionist whose party opposed expansion of slavery into the new western territories, and whose victory came without a single electoral vote from the South, led to the Southern states’ seceding.
 
And what came next? War. . . . What is good for? Absolutely nothing. . . . And now for a musical break.

Perkis-Size Me

July 18th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^

Stop running Vincent Smith up the gut every time pretending it's going to work in the 2012 OSU game.

Damn it, had we stuck to the game plan we had in the first half, we would've won that game. Defense frickin stepped up that day, but Borges single-handedly lost us that game. Went into a shell and decided to pretend we were Alabama when we had nowhere near the personnel to run that style of offense.




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drjaws

July 18th, 2015 at 5:37 PM ^

Non-sports, go back and buy as much stock in Apple, Disney, Google etc as I can.  Today, I'd be a billionaire.  Also, get one of these . . . . .

I'd be a multi hundred billionaire.

Sports related, tackle Vince fucking Young.  Or have UM come out on top of 2006 OSU game somehow . . . spiking diuretics and laxatives in OSU Gatorade.  Also acceptable, the damned Mens BBall title game.  Burke deserved a Natty.