One thing that would be very helpful for time travelers to authenticate themselves?
List 2-3 successive presidencies, preferably persons who are obscure or unheard of in today's age. Maybe a couple of defining events.
Such would undoubtedly take less time to write than this exposition. :c)
Still, nicely-written.
Thank you path forger. That would be a useful way of identifying Time travellers. However, as I have mentioned in other comments, the flow of Time is non linear. Time is itself travelling through the fifth dimension, so such lists would be meaningless. Names and events are constantly changing. Also, the main problem I have with other Time travellers is that they keep trying to kill me. We know how to spot each other. The main thing is to keep hidden and disappear when the job is done.
Talking of leaders, I have spent the past seven years of my life hunting Hitler's parents in order to prevent a historical disaster, so don't tell me about leaders. You don't know how complex and risky this is.
A very fair point stillgideon.
Perhaps a natural disaster or three for which your actions in the present day are a lot less likely to impact? :c) Seismic and volcanic events being a little more reliable than weather events.
Otherwise, yes, you are right that any action that a time traveler travelling to the past can have a significant impact upon the chronomorphology of your time-frame.
Strange that time travelers have it out for each other. I trust that what one person or faction considers to be a desirable future, another will not.
Furthermore, while it is fashionable thinking to prevent a person from being born as a means of preventing the ill that they do, there is a lot of 'cause and effect' at play - including the aftermath of WWI in this case.
Perhaps it would yield more promising results to simply drop an idea or a concept into the hands of one who is willing and able to disseminate it. such would literally be an act of reprogramming history - and a World imbued with more evolved concepts may bring about a World with a more evolved human race.
That is an excellent idea, pathforger. I tried to poison his mother using ground up cherry seeds (did you know that two cherry seeds could kill a man) but alas, the taste was too bitter and she survived.
I shall try and plant good ideas if I ever get the chance to return to the twentieth century. As it is, I'm fairly stranded in the year 2040 and the only way I can communicate at all with you is using this Timephone which is probably on its last legs.
I am happy to hear that you see the merit in my suggestion.
Its certainly more civil and consistent with what I imagine that you are trying to achieve than making an attempt on the life of another, no matter who.
There are worse time periods to get stuck in. I wish you well on your journey of rediscovery.
@pathforger in case you’re still following. Here's part 10..links to previous parts there
https://steemit.com/story/@stillgideon/hatman-my-time-travelling-adventures-part-10-east-london-1917-great-great-grandma-s-famous-fruitcake-and-an-unexpected-visitor