3 things you'd carry with yourself if you could travel back in time

[The_Big_K]

Okay,

Since time machine is probably every engineers' dream machine, I'm asking you -

What would you like to carry with yourself if you were to travel back in time?

Anyone?

[sonasathish]

1. Food,
2. Shelter and
3. Clothes.

Thats it!

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by sonasathish

1. Food,
2. Shelter and
3. Clothes.

Thats it!

Shelter?

[Clothes & Food are taken for granted. I'm sure they did have food in the old times]

[sonasathish]

Originally Posted by The_Big_K

Shelter?

[Clothes & Food are taken for granted. I'm sure they did have food in the old times]

Yes off course! If you want to save yourself from the deadliest mammals of the past where will you go????

[raj87verma88]

I know a lot about survival techniques in various scenarios(jungle, desert, mountains...etc) and how to make use of available resources for ones advantage. But these items are important according to me -
1. An AK-47 assault rifle and a lot of ammunition, a couple of Hunting knifes, an Axe and a Sword
2. Night Vision Goggles
3. Extra pairs of denims and combat shoes.

[The_Big_K]

I'll carry -

1. A Nail Cutter
2. A knief
3. A lighter

(I've seen Cast Away. So got my ideas from there)

[Differential]

Now won't the answer be dependent on which time-slot you are going into ??
e.g.
a) time where dinosaurs existed
b) time where Man was united and was farming
c) Just 100-200 years ago

[The_Big_K]

Yes - but I'd need the things I mentioned no matter in which time era I go.

[MaRo]

Guys your answers showing a fighter returning in time not an Engineer

for me in the range of 400 - 500 years back:
1) Mp3 player (with recorder)
2) Some cool songs
3) A lot of batteries

Sell everyone with it real price*1 Billion (or the same value in their time)
Come to future with a lot of fresh old nice stuff sell them with their real value*10 Billions, I think then I'll have some money to start my life

[gohm]

time machine owner's manual
spare parts
tools

I'd want to be sure it wasn't a one-way trip! You could find everything else in your new time. You would not be able to introduce new technology into the past as that would change progress or open a parallel dimension. I do not believe it is possible to alter the past within the same dimension, you would only be experiencing it like virtual reality. Otherwise chaos would errupt & have done so already. If you evoked change thus opening a parallel dimension, I do not think a time machine would be able to return you as you would now be locked into an alternate universe, not the one you came from, albeit you would be at the correct time of your present. Not an expert in cosmology though.