• Question: If you could go back in time and discover/invent anything what would it be? It could already be discovered or made or not invented or discovered yet.

    Asked by anon-199628 to Sylvia, Sumit, Martin, Kate, Bryony, Aryanne on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’m a bit of a fan a science fiction and this question opens up all sorts of interesting ideas associated with time travel and the potential paradoxes associated with it. However, the only thing that jumps to my mind at the moment is that fact that the Ancient Greeks had a steam engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile) but did nothing useful with it other than using it as a toy. It would be interesting to show them how steam engines could power the world.

    • Photo: Aryanne Finnie

      Aryanne Finnie answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I would have loved to have discovered Penicillin! Then I would be able to tell people to only take it when you really need it!!

    • Photo: Kate McGonagle

      Kate McGonagle answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Hey, great question! I’d like to have invented zips – how useful are zips!? I’d be rich.
      Or, something we don’t have yet – teleportation! Imagine moving from one place to another in an instant. I was thinking about that at the weekend when I was on a 6 hour drive down south….teleportation would have been ideal.

    • Photo: Sylvia Soldatou

      Sylvia Soldatou answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I would say paper! So many great ideas, thoughts and inventions were written on a piece of paper

    • Photo: Sumit Konar

      Sumit Konar answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I would have loved to have discovered atom bomb; i would never tell anyone how to make it and the world would be more peaceful.

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