Your sitting at home on your computer as you are now. Outside a thunder storm is tearing though your neighborhood. As you are filling out an email, lighting strikes your home causing lamps to dim and your computer to flicker. Somehow your email is sent to the same person you addressed it to, but ends up in their mail box two years in the past this day.
What do you think can happen next?
It says, "How did you like my story?" and they must think it's weird because they haven't met me yet or know who I am.
In my case, the only person I email is my mother, but two years ago I still lived with her. So if she got a typical email, something like "yeah I can babysit on Friday, will you give me money to rent them a movie and get them pizza?" she'd be very confused...wondering why we didn't just have this conversation in person.
Now, if I could pre-plan this email and send it to myself....
Heh, my ex-wife would probalby implode. As we were seperated but not divorced. Yet. :-D
I feel like that is taking a turn towards regrets, and I don't believe in those.
* My post has been Matt Attacked!"
Yes. Yes it has. Also, the laws of physics would prevent said scenario from happening. A temporal paradox would occur as well.
Edit: You can however, thanks to relativity, send an email from the future. If you were orbiting Earth, the Earths gravity would be slightly less on you. Most astronauts are about a billionth of a second ahead of us (or slightly more). If you were there, sent an email to me down here, you would have technically sent it from the future. The same can be said going in reverse.
Or, if you were orbiting a black hole at somewhere near the speed of light....like 99.9%, then you could send an email to me and CC yourself. You would get it immediately, I wouldn't get it for 10 years. (from your perspective)
trick question - email didn't exist two years ago.
Fantastic.
Side note: What's the deal with airline food?
There was a google commercial about that I always liked...I mean I hate TV and specifically advertising, but this was a good one....