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that's why you build it like a spaceship 🤷 ez
I hear police boxes and phones booths are popular as well.
This blew my mind. All those movies!
So, Back to the Future's a bunch of bullshit?!
There's a ton of issues with time travel. That could be one, but most fictional time-travel devices can be said to accommodate for the difference in distance. It would just be boring to explain on-screen.
floating astronaut with pistol always has been
It could be explained as a time and space machine but just saying time machine is easier.
That's how ive always thought of these things in my head.
but imagine if you could set it to the same time but different distance, it would allow you to teleport, that might be too strong.
I remember reading about this concept as a kid in a short story Neal Shusterman wrote called Same Time, Next Year. Blew my mind
If space is always expanding, I’d really like to know if a time traveler would experience issues existing in a universe where the space between atoms is different from the one they left.
They are not, that would require changes in the strong force.
I was surprised when I read the OG time machine story by Jules Verne and this was a main plot point, and only later stories hand-waived it. You'd think it was something from later analysis of the idea. Almost like that Verne dude was clever.
It should be illegal to remind people (me, particularly) about Steins;Gate while they're at work
I can't be fucking crying on the clock, dawg
One way to resolve this is to have some kind of multiverse theory where you don't travel back in time to your universe, but to a narrow slection of parallel universes that are also shifted slightly so that it spits you out in an analogous location to your initial departure.
It's just another problem with the mechanics of the snap at the end of Avengers: Endgame
See, that's a problem they always skip in time-travel movies.
At least in Doctor Who, the T.A.R.D.I.S. can teleport through space as well as through time, solving that problem. But most time machines don't