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| ParanoidObsessive 10/05/18 4:59:48 PM #43: | Zeus posted... At any rate, kinda curious if any scifi has addressed that concept by only allowing the traveler to return to certain times in history when the planet is in perfect sync with the same location in the current time. I would assume not, because anyone sophisticated enough to even know/care that it's an issue would also know that it's almost impossible for such perfect synchronization to EVER occur due to perturbations of orbit (it, the planet isn't making a exact perfect loop every time, but wobbles like hell and the loops gradually shift and warp slightly over time). But maybe someone has. I haven't read EVERY time travel story ever written. (Some stories DO use the concept of their being specific "time windows" that limit travel to only certain times and places, but I don't think I've ever heard it explicitly explained as a function of the planet needing to be in the same place it originally was as much as it's usually just handwaved away as a quirk of time travel that it would take too much science to explain, and is mainly only there for narrative reasons.) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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