<p>Im not just saying this cause I want to get into Stanford but I really wished i could sit in the class that Carl Frederich Gauss sat in and derived the formula to find the sum of natural numbers from 0 to n. Perhaps later I could also convince him to publish his works so that Mathematics could advance.</p>
<p>I didn’t pick something that far back in history…I chose the 2007 iPhone launch…</p>
<p>I said I wanted to witness the creation of the first solar panel. I am into renewable energies so does is this something I should put?</p>
<p>I put D-day. I’m a WWII nut (:</p>
<p>“The conception of Jesus Christ” is actually hilarious and brilliant.</p>
<p>@vig: That formula is actually very simple to derive though… you just pair the ends.</p>
<p>I put Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. Huge inspiration of mine.</p>
<p>And @tara: Put something you’d actually WANT to witness… does seeing the first solar panel being created sound fun or inspiring to you? (It doesn’t to me, but if it does to you, by all means, do it!)</p>
<p>II would’ve loved to witness the breaking of H.H Holmes psyche that took him from genius to serial killer. I wish I could’ve seen what made him decided to murder as many as 200 people. What in his life went so wrong that mass murder seemed right?</p>
<p>lol mine’s pretty simple. I did the indus valley civilization because we know so little about it and it’s fascinating for me as especially because of my Indian ancestry. </p>
<p>I am considering writing the Christmas Truce of 1914 (WW1), the beginning of life on earth (so i could witness what actually occurred–divine creation, evolution, big bang, string theory, etc), or V J Day (both grandpas were in WW2)… any advice?</p>
<p>I put Nikola Tesla’s demonstration of his wireless electricity technology. I think his breakthroughs would’ve changed the world completely for the better.</p>
<p>So many great answers, but one of my favorites for humor is the 2007 iPhone launch.</p>
<p>Do we need to explain or just say it? </p>
<p>I don’t think I had the best answer, but at least I wrote what felt right. </p>
<p>My answer to this brilliant question is that I wouldn’t want to go back in time. I believe that every person has their part in history, and I would never want to change what have happened in the past, as because of those events I am who I am today. </p>
Queen Elizabeth I’s coronation.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989
I would have written the disappearance of Roanoake if I had been a part of this! Love reading your guys answers, so creative!
Love the truce idea!
I wrote about Nixon and Kissinger’s opening of diplomatic relations with China in 1972! I’m an IR major hoping to focus on U.S.-East Asia diplomacy.
I did when man first discovered fire.
Defenestration of Prague - basically, the incident that started the horrible Thirty Years’ War was a Catholic minister getting pushed out of a window by some Calvinist revolutionaries. The minister fell thirty feet, and survived by landing in a pile of manure. Both historical and comical merit - what more could you ask for?
@butterfreesnd oops I said the same thing