Okay, here's the deal. You are get to send ONE book. The goal is to have the maximum positive effect on mankind. Which book would you send, and to what era? (i.e. you probably wouldn't want to send a calculus text back 3000 years, because other fundamentals of learning weren't in place yet). Some obvious candidates might be:
Peace.
- Grays Anatomy, sent back 1000 years or so?
- Darwin's Origin of Species to the beginning of the Renaissance?
- A book telling the story of the whole alien/govt. conspiracy theory regarding Rosswell to July 1, 1947? This would give American's about a week to go and check it out first hand. Two results:
- turns out there is nothing to the whole story; it really was a weather balloon -OR-
- a bunch of dead Americans in the desert that we now are trying to get to the bottom of.
- The Two Towers back to a young JRR Tolkein with a note: "Hey, J, this is gonna piss some people off."
- The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics back to Isaac Newton?
Peace.