The Silmarillion, but carved into stone and sent to the earliest Northern Europeans
See what happens to world mythology
Carved into stone. So you’re sending them a literal mountain
Sure, why not?
Have it printed on a series of cave walls that go deep into the ocean and by the time the present comes around again, maybe we’ll have fully explored the oceans and there will still be unexplored land.
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Permament Record by Edward Snowden to George Orwell.
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I’d love to send Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity to Newton. Or maybe a whole textbook on modern physics but that would probably not be deep enough for him. But I’d really love to see what he could have done with modern physics.
Some people are just one hit wonders, so it could be für nothing. But it would be worth a try.
It’s definitively better than to give the idea of nuclear fission to Henry Cavendish in 1766. Right now we live in the sweet spot between discovery and… broad practical application.
I wonder how far back you could send say the Feynman Lectures and have the genius of that era make use of it.
Like would Archimedes be able to do anything with it given it doesn’t include the instructions for calculus and such and has such a modern context
How about the pyramid engineers
Maybe Friedrich Gauss could make better use of that, dude was a real genius.
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me and a book of all the best days to buy bitcoin
Biff?
Not the best days to sell as well?
Grays Sports Almanac to what’s his name.
Already happened and we are living in that shit timeline
One of these books that’s just hundreds pages of digits of a large prime number.
That would start a religion.
They loved their numerology back then.
People still do nowadays, especially when you can cherrypick bible passages with special numbers
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sent to Julius Caesar
I see 3 outcomes, in order of least to most in likelihood and excitement:
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Julius see’s the error in his ways and establishes what essentially is an entirely new politcal system that is so good and just that It would stand today.
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Same scenario as above except his grandson grows up to one day claim his rule and reverses everything.
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He is killed, and for the exact same reasons as current lore
From what I can tell, the “tyranny” that Caesar was killed for was because he wasn’t for the Roman ownership class and was using his power to counteract the huge wealth disparities that existed at the end of the Roman Republic.
Also the aim of the Business Plot against FDR.
If FDR had reacted to that like he should have, the course of history might be pretty different. For one thing, the Bushes might have never gained the power they did.
Agreed.
There should have been a massive purge.
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Side question, but would ancient Romans be able to decipher a modern day language from one book? I’d imagine a language with Latin based words might be easy enough but not sure how equipped they were.
I miss /r/AskHistorians
Just translate it into Latin before sending it.
Oh yeah, for sure as an answer to the OP question, but I’m still curious about their decyphering ability
Depends on which modern language we’re talking. If it’s italian or romenian, they’d likely manage to work that “filthy” latin into “proper” latin. Greek might also work. Portuguese, spanish and french would require a LOT of work with native speakers and I suspect german and english would completely fail, “Why in Jupiter’s dangling balls these barbarians keep changing the sound of the fucking vowels???”
I’d assume they would think it was written by morons and not take a word of it seriously.
Is romenian Italian with a Rome accent? Or do you mean Romanian? Cause if so, it’s just as far from latin as French or Spanish. Greek would actually be the best modern language to send back in time, I think. Modern Greeks have issues understanding ancient Greek, but the reverse wouldn’t be true, apparently.
Ops, Romanian, yeah. The country name’s “Romenia” in Portuguese and I forgot it was different in English
He couldn’t get himself to read a note an eavesdropper to the conspirators gave him trying to warn him about the attack, I sadly doubt he’d read a whole prophetic book.
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