>>>>Just remember Arthur Clarke's words: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". In you were transported back to ancient times, given today's knowledge and technology, almost any gadget you could demonstrate could label you as a deity with supernatural powers. Does that prove you are a God? No.
>>>>But they would believe it.
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>>>OTOH, if your time warp machine had a faulty Pentium chip in it, and you landed in a wrong century, you'd be burned as a witch...
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>>A little OT, but do you remember that scene in "Somewhere in Time" staring Christopher Reeves? A college senior is giving his final play in college, and after the curtin call a little old lady comes up to him, hands him a pocket time piece and says "Come back to me!".
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>>Five years later he has writers block and goes on vacation. At a hotel he sees a portrait of a beautiful lady and falls in love with her. In doing research he discovers she is that little old lady who gave him the watch five years before. So, he hops back in time and in gives the watch back to her.
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>>This points out the particle paradox of time travel into the past. Where did the watch come from?
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>A shop? :)
>
>I think a proper quote is due, from The Master and his "Restaurant at the end of the Universe":
>
>"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that
>of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no
>problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a
>broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is
>also no problem about changing the course of history - the course
>of history does not change because it all fits together like a
>jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things
>they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the
>end.
>
>The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main
>work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time
>Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you
>for instance how to describe something that was about to happen
>to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward
>two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described
>differently according to whether you are talking about it from
>the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the
>further future, or a time in the further past and is further
>complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst
>you are actually travelling from one time to another with the
>intention of becoming your own father or mother.
>
>Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified
>Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up:
>and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond
>this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
>
>The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this
>tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the
>term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered
>not to be."

One of my favorite books. Too bad he won't be writing any more of them.