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[–] FatsoJackson@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's why you build it like a spaceship 🤷 ez

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I hear police boxes and phones booths are popular as well.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This blew my mind. All those movies!

So, Back to the Future's a bunch of bullshit?!

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

floating astronaut with pistol always has been

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] OddButNotReally@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I remember reading about this concept as a kid in a short story Neal Shusterman wrote called Same Time, Next Year. Blew my mind

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

They are not, that would require changes in the strong force.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] polycrome@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's just another problem with the mechanics of the snap at the end of Avengers: Endgame

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See, that's a problem they always skip in time-travel movies.

[–] Codeviper828@lemmus.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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