h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

First of all, let me preface this by saying that nothing here is particularly scientific. It's just my opinion, and it could well be dead wrong.

>>>Do you believe time travel is possible?
I assume that what is meant is the classic idea of setting a date, either forward or backward in time, getting into a machine thingy, thumbing a few controls and - hey presto - you're in Ancient Rome? No. I think it might unfortunately be a flight of fancy for our age, a bit like demons and faeries were in times past. What we see in the universe is movement, lots of it. I don't think this movement has a particular direction though, it's just moving. We might just be reading something into the time conundrum that is not there.

>>>If you could go back in time, where would you go?
Good question: you don't have to go too far back in human history to be confronted by lots of squalour, muck, disease and brutality. Not sure if I would hang around anywhere for too long, in case somebody decided to disembowel me, or press gang me into the Navy, or deport me to Australia (now there's a thought!). I would probably choose pre-history - Ireland just after the Ice Age, maybe.