If you could be present around a famous ancient...

I wouldn't mind being a horsemen at the Battle of Yarmouk. On the Arab side, naturally.

Originally posted by Sparten **Note to scientist**. Damn the laws of physics, invent a time machine.

Actually according to the laws we know its quite possible. If you can establish a wormhole, then it doesn't matter whether you go between two points in space, or two points in time. Its all space-time.


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 25-Nov-2008 at 05:40

Originally posted by gcle2003 Originally posted by Suren In Pella (Macedonia) with a machine gun right after Alexander was born! It always seems to me the best attribute I would have transported back into ancient times would be knowing how to build a sailing vessel faster ans more manoeuvrable than anything anybody else would have, without needing any technology not available there (at least from the Bronze age on).   I just have a bermuda-rigged sloop in mind, carrying messages.