If used correctly, the bike can move you forward in time. It takes approximately 60 minutes to move an hour into the future. But you can't return so think twice before you go into a horrible age.
Ackshzually ☝🤓 It will displace the air molecules around you causing a subtle but uncontrollable chain of events that will culminate in the next category 6 typhoon in Japan. Quickly, freeze!
Well, if we follow that logic, then where you end up is the emptiness of space, even if you go back exactly one year.
People tend to forget that the Earth not only goes around the sun, but the whole system is moving, so Earth is not in the same place as it was a year ago, even if it is relative to the sun.
Presumably all time travel devices, spells, etc. compensate for that. If someone figured out how to travel to the past, calculating where the planet was at the time should be easy by comparison.
Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn't be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn't have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.
Yeah, they fly through some "portal" or whatever and end up in the previous day. Then langoliers show up to devour it. There's some other madness going on, too. You know, typical Stephen King shit.
It is a plot point in the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan, where they push the whole solar system 15 minutes into the future (iirc) to hide it from the rest of the universe.
For the "present" of the rest of the universe it is just empty space, the Solar System is in a bubble of spacetime completely disconnected from the rest and continuously shifted 15 minutes.
> go back in time
> "no one is there"
> change plans
> change SPAS12 to a barrel of petrol
> go to the moment when Thomas Mathus has been born
> pour everything with it
> the whole Malthus family dies
> go back to the present
> it's now a utopia without neoliberal capitalism and/or the world-wide rise of fascism
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Only time travel to the future is possible. For example I will time travel one hour into the future and it will take me one hour to get there
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You can backdate posts on AP.
You can travel to the past. You just need to take a plane to somewhere in a negative offset time zone.
I'll travel several hours into the future and it only takes me one bottle of vodka.
Unless you're traveling close to the speed of light!
It still takes you an hour, it just takes everyone else near infinitely longer.
We are all time travelers
Slowing down the metabolism seems the mistake realistic thing we might be able to do to something like time traveling.
Because the langoliers got them?
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That was the first Steven King movie I saw when I was a teenager. Messed me up.
I saw it on TV when I was 7 or 8. I had nightmares for months.
yeah balki doesn't do well
Miniseries
Even though a bit cringy because of the metaphysical stuff, I really liked that twist on the time travel trope.
Of course not, don't be ridiculous.
This comment makes me so happy, I do the dance of joy.
My first thought
Your brain is a time machine. However, it cannot effect the reality that you physically reside in.
Time machine, but not a space machine
And the bike is a space machine, but not a time machine. What we need is a spacetime machine.
If used correctly, the bike can move you forward in time. It takes approximately 60 minutes to move an hour into the future. But you can't return so think twice before you go into a horrible age.
Ok so we need
You can travel through space too, but again, it won't affect the world you physically reside in.
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Ackshzually ☝🤓 It will displace the air molecules around you causing a subtle but uncontrollable chain of events that will culminate in the next category 6 typhoon in Japan. Quickly, freeze!
We all have our time machines, don't we.
Those that take us back are memories.
Those that carry us forward are dreams
you can easily return to the past
but a tree used to be there where you are and now you've impaled it
Well, if we follow that logic, then where you end up is the emptiness of space, even if you go back exactly one year.
People tend to forget that the Earth not only goes around the sun, but the whole system is moving, so Earth is not in the same place as it was a year ago, even if it is relative to the sun.
I think that brings up the question of how do we go about establishing an absolute position? If everything is moving, what isn't?
Everything being relative is a hell of a thing.
Presumably all time travel devices, spells, etc. compensate for that. If someone figured out how to travel to the past, calculating where the planet was at the time should be easy by comparison.
Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn't be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn't have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.
In the year 252525
The backwards time machine still won't have arrived
In all the world, there's only one technology
A rusty sword for practicing proctology
Langoliers?
is THAT what that was about?
I only ever watched the first half of the TV movie. Second half never really seemed to air, or it really failed to explain anything.
Yeah, they fly through some "portal" or whatever and end up in the previous day. Then langoliers show up to devour it. There's some other madness going on, too. You know, typical Stephen King shit.
It is a plot point in the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan, where they push the whole solar system 15 minutes into the future (iirc) to hide it from the rest of the universe.
No, sounds like the solar system just got pushed out of phase with the rest of their universe.
The solar system will probably fall apart with the sudden disappearance of gravity of other systems
For the "present" of the rest of the universe it is just empty space, the Solar System is in a bubble of spacetime completely disconnected from the rest and continuously shifted 15 minutes.
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NGL, this sounds pretty awesome.
Give me just a couple of minutes in either direction, I'm golden.
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Isn't this the premise of The Langoliers?
I'd like to return to about 12 hours ago so I can sleep
Weirdcore my beloved
Reminds me of white Christmas from black Mirror
Langoliers but worse special effects
I think you mean better...
I think you mean heresy
No one? Really? That sounds like heaven! is very introverted
♪♫ He's gonna take you back to the past ♪♫