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The answer to your question is always 42.
Sci-fi aside, this is true (theoretically).Best way to travel forward in time is to accelerate in a spaceship close to the speed of light for several months or years, then turn around and come home. When you finally get back, everyone and everything you knew will be much older or dead.
Relativity. Cheers.
I'm not sure you're giving scientists and futuristic AI enough creditWell, we can imagine anything, I suppose. And maybe the universe does have a center, but I'll bet you'd have trouble nailing that down to inside a few light years...which means, there we are. No way to do it.
Or simply combine the time travel device with teleportation because why no
Even if we couldn't calculate absolute position, we could guess
and check by sending beacons back in time a couple seconds and make extrapolations. Or simply combine the time travel device with teleportation because why not.
Suspended animation is time travel? I don't think so. It's sleeping.
Do I travel through time during the interval from when I drop off to sleep to when I awake? No. I sleep.
Now, I suppose you could call that "time travel" if you want. But IMO, it's not.
Suspended animation is clearly not sleeping. A sleeping person would age over the years which is not part of a definition that describes suspended animation. The only difference between SA and using some sort of machine is that there would be a body laying around for however many years. Not very elegant, but definitely achieves the same goal as traditional (future) time travel conventions and a hell of a lot more realistic, if not as much fun to think about.
Heinlein's The Door Into Summer. Cold sleep to go forward, time machine to go back. Not very realistic, but a fun idea. Looks at the economics of time travel as well.Suspended animation is clearly not sleeping. A sleeping person would age over the years which is not part of a definition that describes suspended animation. The only difference between SA and using some sort of machine is that there would be a body laying around for however many years. Not very elegant, but definitely achieves the same goal as traditional (future) time travel conventions and a hell of a lot more realistic, if not as much fun to think about.
If I do travel in time how much baggage do I get to bring? Do they charge extra if I go over weight? Damn ripoffs.
And the TSA keep changing their rules. What if you end up in a time where an easily converted to a shank toothbrush is considered a terrorist threat? Do you go to future jail?If I do travel in time how much baggage do I get to bring? Do they charge extra if I go over weight? Damn ripoffs.
You missed the part where I said beacons? Inanimate objects sent into past/future could quickly determine absolute position scientifically. and don't create a paradox.OK. You go first. If you're ok with guessing.
That's basically what I've been saying.you could only theoretically travel to a past that your timeline has already experienced, so it probably wouldn’t be all that helpful anyway.
That's basically what I've been saying.
Even once you get past all the logistics.
And anyway, as someone much smarter than I said, if time travel were possible, why haven’t we seen any future tourists yet? Someone would have had to travelled to our time by now.
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