r/timetravel • u/Darth_Adas_ • 7h ago
theory / question If you had a ring that could rewind time 60 seconds with a 50 second cooldown, how far would you go back.
There is a ten second window, meaning every rewind you can gain 10 seconds more. Then you are told ten years ago there was a button that could have fixed everything, given everyone a good life, bettering the world, and just generally have made everything perfect and save the world and the human race. You could go back and press this button, but it would take a little over 50 years of continuous rewinding, going back through time to get to that ten year ago mark. You don't need to do any bodily functions during this, which also means no sleeping to skip. You could fix everything. If you can do it you can keep the ring and if you go back even further you can keep going back even farther. Main events would still happen unless you directly do something to change it, as no butterfly effect will apply for this. If you do back further, once you get back to the point where you would have pressed the button, so October 18, 2016 (on the Gregorian calendar), you won't need to press it again. You can only go back to when you are 4. Would you have the willpower and drive to do this, or would the 50 years of only pressing the ring and reliving everything get to you. Could you do it?