History Recreation

OK, so you come back into the room and you can see an infrared imprint of yourself. Dinosaurs leave imprints, too. They're called fossils. Go vist your local natural history museum.

I guess not, time can not be changed, it keeps on ticking even if you move approching speed of light. Energy might as well be conversely reversed, yet for time, it is what is, running towards infinity and beyond. There is not a thing the same at any given time, at microscopic perspective even electron moves with untraceable vector.

There's a show on Netflix called "Continuum". Good show.

Anyway, the female cop is rigged up with software that can read the signatures of people that have long left the area, recreating the crime as if she's watching it in real time.

That's probably the closest you'll get to it...unless you go visit a shaman, drink some hallucinogenic potion and get hooked up with your animal spirit guide.

You can't travel 1 million lightyears away and just zoom into the incomming light from earth to see our past, so your best choice is probably consulting the Askasic registers.

This would have been my second choice.... but we mortal beings have difficulty chasing it due physics laws that would not just allow that to happen..... so for recreating the history is based on tangible evidences left behind... like fossils or stones... or what ever.

You may appreciate the fact that carbon dating received a Noble prize.... as a mark of importance to trace the history of ages.... so just my musings

Have you considered leaving it up to the experts and just watching a nature video portraying our "best guess" of what they looked like given available evidence? Perhaps going to a museum and actually seeing them on display!

Simpler than inventing time travel.

H G Wells wrote about a "Time Machine".

If you could find the plans for it you would have a head start on your project.

Then you can spend 50 years trying to make it work, then go back 50 years and tell your younger self not to waste their life on such a useless project. ;)

Now that would be a paradox.

Only if you had your PhD before you started, otherwise it would just one Doctor, not a pair o' docs.

Sorry, whenever things end up in the big timey-wimey ball of ... stuff, I end up getting really punny and snarky.

In the future, I'm going to need to make a time machine and go back to Gibbs-smack my younger self so we will not have had been such a weisenheimer when time travel will have had come up later ... ugh, time travel makes verb tenses too hard to work out!

You need a flux capacitor and a DeLorean, Murphy.