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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Well, since no one bothered to create a savepoint, we can't travel back in time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

did you travel millions of years into the past?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Ahummm, well actually, * adjusts monocle * time travel is not possible and since nobody has invented time machines yet, neither of these scenarios would happen in reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So either we would have to invent teleportation along with time travel/ have some sort of "magnet pad' that must exist and not break at all times on earth, or its the time machine type where it just fast forwards everything around you until somehow you're in a mall

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe this is why Stephen Hawkings time travellor party never worked out lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I should hope that if we had time travel landing pads, we'd have a pretty good log of maintenance times in the future.

The tough part to figure out, though, is that the more a pad is used, the more maintenance it requires, which in turn modifies the logs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'd like to believe that mass (and then by extension the Earth) "defines" the spacetime around it as much as it distorts spacetime near it. I suspect this may even be the underlying cause for the observation of speed of light being constant in the presence of earth/solar/galactic movement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I thought that spacetime was created by mass. I thought that if you were to ever find the end of the universe you wouldn't be able to travel beyond because you would just create new spacetime everywhere you went.

And I thought that was scientific consensus. No idea where I got it from, though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It'd be really interesting if time moves at different speeds in different bits of the galaxy, find out that none of the other solar systems have life because closer to the galactic center of someone dropped a teapot when the first life evolved on earth it still wouldn't have hit the floor.

Of course there's a lot of reasons this isn't the case but I dismiss them by saying they're all just an effect of distortion due to time variance.

Maybe we'll get s message from voyager saying 'arrived at a star 224 light years away, it was super quick because there's no time in the middle so you just skip that bit'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I once saw a short film where this was taken into account: they moved back in time a few hours and ended you a few miles away too

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is why you have to calibrate your time machine to track the relative gravity well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's why you need a T.A.R.D.I.S.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah. Location is relative.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It’s my belief that Time Machines aren’t immune to the effects of gravity. When time changes, the machine goes to the space it would be at if it was affect gravity for the whole time.

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