Balerion6@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agoTime travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down120
arrow-up1138arrow-down1message-squareTime travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.Balerion6@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareVicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 hours agoA wormhole type time machine would leave the travel points A and B physically independent of each other. This opens up the option to change destinations… step in at New York, exit in San Francisco.
minus-square7uWqKj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 hours agoDue to the energies involved, creating a wormhole between two cities would probably leave you with a wormhole and no cities.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoThose are just small issues that will be solved after few tries.
A wormhole type time machine would leave the travel points A and B physically independent of each other. This opens up the option to change destinations… step in at New York, exit in San Francisco.
Due to the energies involved, creating a wormhole between two cities would probably leave you with a wormhole and no cities.
Those are just small issues that will be solved after few tries.