I'm pretty sure the numbers are randomized, so just through the impact of you being there for a minute, the younger you acting and thinking different, everyone younger you comes into contact with making slightly different movements and thinking slightly different thoughts, and everyone those people come into contact with, etc. etc. I'm basing the thought that the numbers would be different on the butterfly effect.
I definitely wouldn't pass up the opportunity either, but I would be skeptical that it would work.
Since the OP's post doesn't posit that anything would necessarily change other than us talking to our younger selves, I don't think it's necessary to assume that anything we do to alter our past is automatically doomed to failure. Yes, maybe it stirs up the quantum foam sufficiently to randomize the numbers differently but we don't know that quantum physics works that way since we have no practical experience with time travel. It's a fun thought experiment, not a physics test. ;)
So...wouldn't the numbers be different since you changed time? Then 20 year old you would think future you is just a troll.
Why would the numbers be different? I had no influence over anything to do with the organization or how they picked their numbers.
Sure, the younger me might think the future me was crazy but spending a dollar on a tip? I don't think I would have turned it down.
I'm pretty sure the numbers are randomized, so just through the impact of you being there for a minute, the younger you acting and thinking different, everyone younger you comes into contact with making slightly different movements and thinking slightly different thoughts, and everyone those people come into contact with, etc. etc. I'm basing the thought that the numbers would be different on the butterfly effect.
I definitely wouldn't pass up the opportunity either, but I would be skeptical that it would work.
Since the OP's post doesn't posit that anything would necessarily change other than us talking to our younger selves, I don't think it's necessary to assume that anything we do to alter our past is automatically doomed to failure. Yes, maybe it stirs up the quantum foam sufficiently to randomize the numbers differently but we don't know that quantum physics works that way since we have no practical experience with time travel. It's a fun thought experiment, not a physics test. ;)
Yeah, I know, just thought I'd mess with the thought experiment :P
According to the doctrine of Back to the Future, No the number wouldn't change. As we are all well aware that is how Biff made his fortune.
I always had a problem with that actually! I was even thinking about it as I wrote my last comment.