A parallel fantasy of this would be to travel to 1900 instead of 1700s. I would want to meet one of my favorite authors HG Wells of 1900, author of “The Time Machine.”

I don’t know what I would do without my iPhone though. I’d have to bring it with me.

that works for the store front job and to give me a break from being a work class blacksmith inventor

I understand that passions and imagination might lead people to believe time travel is possible but it is all fantasy.

Do y'all think the Earth was here at the same spot in the Universe as it was one year ago? Physically going to the past is only fantasy.

Oh, we might one day be able to send something into a brief past (less than a day) because the calculations of displacement are relatively simple (still very complex tho).
The further you try to calculate, the larger the changes due to chaos and displacement. If you think a super-duper-supercomputer would be able to calculate and anticipate every possible change ya gotta remember while its calculating, everything is still changing/moving.

You would probably end up thousands of miles from Earth (in space) or inside the Earth if your calculations are even close.
Plus, any significant travel to the future would fail because the accumulation of moments in the Universe have not transpired to cause a reality. Additionally you would have to allow for displacement and directionality of matter.
The Earth will not be in this exact same spot one year from now, nothing will.
Duration, cause and effect and chaos affect time travel to both the past and the future. The more distant the greater the variance.
Any speculation is pure fantasy.

Blacksmith! Interesting choice!

well it's that or wizard

and pardon the typo above
it should have been
world class blacksmith inventor
who can not spell

Stick to blacksmith! You don't strike me as a wizard :) And Merlin may be wise, he's not so sexy :p

woo hoo i'll meet you in the stone circle.

i read the first 2 years ago. i did not know there were so many more

In the 18th century,
did the women bathe often?
Or, would it be likely, I'd encounter
people who smell like dumpster fermented roadkill?

Did the women shave their legs & armpits?
Did they trim their coochie hair?
Or, would I encounter 'chewbacca's sister'?

I don't think really very often? They had to boil water and fill a tub with it. And probably walk quite the bit to get that water. Not something you'd do each day.
But maybe some washed in a stream? I think in town it would've been rather smelly.

I don't think people shaved, I doubt men did and a man with a jungle down there isn't pretty either.
Maybe prostitutes did shave.
Living in those days I don't think too many cared. Think back to only the 70s where it also was normal to not shave down there.

it still IS normal to not shave down there. SHAVING it is abnormal.

nothing wrong with a nice proper trim though...
nope
nothing wrong with that at all.

I agree. It's a weird fad that has lasted way too long.

amen, sister!
amen! ⛪

As a healer and an intelligent , independent woman I am confident I would survive back then but I would not stay .. I am not giving up my iPhone for anyone I prefer modern men who wear sexy cologne

If it's the current me, at my present age, with my actual life experiences... No love interest could entice me to voluntarily stay in that world. Women have no rights, no independent money, no opportunities to earn self supporting money, and hold a subservient place in society. I value my independence too much for that life.