• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    10·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      6 months ago

      I see 3 outcomes, in order of least to most in likelihood and excitement:

      1. 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.

      2. Same scenario as above except his grandson grows up to one day claim his rule and reverses everything.

      3. He is killed, and for the exact same reasons as current lore. Either because his arrogance causes him to deny what will happen, or because regardless of any attempt to avoid such an outcome those who sought the power he had would still seek out that same power. Both lessons are fairly important but I think the latter one is often missed in the countless retellings. Power both corrupts and it’s one sexy hot bitch.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    The complete history of the stock market. I’d send it to me for my 21st birthday. With a certain letter proving it was me from the future. With the last chapter being the history of bitcoin.

  • Icalasari@fedia.io
    1·
    6 months ago

    The Silmarillion, but carved into stone and sent to the earliest Northern Europeans

    See what happens to world mythology

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
    1·
    6 months ago

    I like to imagine giving a big World Atlas of some sort to any seafaring culture around 500AD would result in interesting consequences, possibly with it becoming a real treasure. Maps are like pictures and valuable even if the places’ names can’t be understood

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I have a book at home on my shelf which is just a collection of all of Nikola Tesla’s notes and findings.

    I’m sending it to Benjamin Franklin.