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Need Time Travel Advise; is Earth the center of the universe?
Topic Started: Jan 13 2010, 06:53 PM (196 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Let's say I'm going to travel back in time to 12 hours ago. If I leave 'here' now, where would I 'reappear' 12 hours ago? The Earth would have rotated, so the 'here' now would likely not be the 'here' on Earth 12 hours ago. The Earth would have moved, too, presumably. If I were to travel to 6 months ago or six months hence, the Earth would be on the other side of the Sun.

So, uhm, where's the origin of the universal coordinates? How do you know where 'here' is, was, or will be given the movement of matter and energy in space over time?

Any idea? :blink:
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QuirtEvans
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So that explains it. Time travel has been invented already, but the inventors launched themselves into space.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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lb1
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You spend too much time at WTF.

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lb1
Jan 13 2010, 06:58 PM
You spend too much time at WTF.

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Maybe that's where he lands when he time travels back 12 hours?
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lb1
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Jan 13 2010, 07:01 PM
lb1
Jan 13 2010, 06:58 PM
You spend too much time at WTF.

lb
Maybe that's where he lands when he time travels back 12 hours?
Time travel forward or back wont get you there, you have to go through the looking glass.

lb
My position is simple: you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and slung mud on an issue where none was deserved. Quirt 03/08/09
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Axtremus
Jan 13 2010, 06:53 PM
Let's say I'm going to travel back in time to 12 hours ago. If I leave 'here' now, where would I 'reappear' 12 hours ago? The Earth would have rotated, so the 'here' now would likely not be the 'here' on Earth 12 hours ago. The Earth would have moved, too, presumably. If I were to travel to 6 months ago or six months hence, the Earth would be on the other side of the Sun.

So, uhm, where's the origin of the universal coordinates? How do you know where 'here' is, was, or will be given the movement of matter and energy in space over time?

Any idea? :blink:
It's all in your mind, Ax.
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. We cannot get behind consciousness." -Max Planck

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John D'Oh
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I don't know about 6 months, but if you travel back in time 35 years you always end up in Wrexham in North Wales. There's no other explanation for the place.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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1hp
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I always thought that it was incredible that we could launch a rocket from earth, and about 24 hours later it went into lunar orbit, even though the moon is constantly moving through space. The only thing more impressive is a young Scotty beaming people onto a starship moving at warp speed. :sombrero:

Edited by 1hp, Jan 13 2010, 07:52 PM.
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George K
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Jan 13 2010, 07:52 PM
The only thing more impressive is a young Scotty beaming people onto a starship moving at warp speed.
Aside from needing some spelling advise, Ax ( :bluewink: ), you may want to take a look at this: Physics of the Impossible.

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bachophile
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ahh i get it.

TNCR koan.

wont work.

we will remain unenlightened barbarians.

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Edited by bachophile, Jan 13 2010, 08:26 PM.
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Jan 13 2010, 06:53 PM
Let's say I'm going to travel back in time to 12 hours ago. If I leave 'here' now, where would I 'reappear' 12 hours ago? The Earth would have rotated, so the 'here' now would likely not be the 'here' on Earth 12 hours ago. The Earth would have moved, too, presumably. If I were to travel to 6 months ago or six months hence, the Earth would be on the other side of the Sun.

So, uhm, where's the origin of the universal coordinates? How do you know where 'here' is, was, or will be given the movement of matter and energy in space over time?

Any idea? :blink:
Also, the galaxy is moving as well, in those 12 hours.

However, who's to say that you have to come out the other side of time travel at the same 'here' as you went in? When we travel in space (from here to there) we necessarily arrive at a different time than we started. So why not when we travel in time, we necessarily arrive at a different place than we started. And not knowing the mechanics of that later relationship as we do the former, I've always been willing to give scifi writers a pass that the arrival 'here' coincides with the ever-moving 3d departure location.
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