Poll of the Day > You use a time machine, and go back in time several thousand years

(+) Yeah! (+)

Due to the time machine not accounting for spacial displacement, you are now several light-years away from the Solar System, where you suffocate to death, and all your blood boils due to a lack of pressure.

How screwed are you?

Why would you step out of the time machine if it's in the middle of space?
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MasterGakke posted...

Why would you step out of the time machine if it's in the middle of space?

Why would a timemachine be built to keep humans alive in space?
The vacuum itself would most likely crush a Delorean when all the air sucks out.
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Foppe posted...

Why would a timemachine be built to keep humans alive in space?

Because it ended up in space.
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MasterGakke posted...

Foppe posted...

Why would a timemachine be built to keep humans alive in space?

Because it ended up in space.

But you dont know that when you build it.
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So you're telling me I'm smart enough to build a time machine but not smart enough to recognize potential temporal variances and accounting for them before testing?
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MasterGakke posted...

So you're telling me I'm smart enough to build a time machine but not smart enough to recognize potential temporal variances and accounting for them before testing?

Yes.

You now work for Microsoft during this scenario, which explains this.

In that case I'm pretty screwed. Good thing I'm way too dumb to build a time machine, then.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Due to the time machine not accounting for spacial displacement

Usually the warping of time-space caused by the Earth's gravity does that on it's own.
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Actually, considering the possible ways to build a time machine, many would not have this problem, as it reverses the universe around a specific point (including the movement through the universe/galaxy of that point). The only significant difference is the items within the machine are in stasis (so do not change at all while the rest of the universe reverses all actions for X amount of time/actions.

If you just suddenly moved through time backwards, you would explode right away when the atoms of whatever is in the time machine collide with other mater/energy in it's path at super fast speeds.

Instead, you just basically reverse the math of the universe, and every action that happened in the entire universe (or possibly within a specific field), happens in reverse order.

If it's in a field, then that field would still move forward through time, andonly the items inside the field would reverse (so you would not move at all in space/time, but the items inside the field would grow younger, or move through time in reverse. This could allow someone to become young again for instance.

If you reverse the entire universe except those things within stasis fields, you could travel back through time in effect, but unless you are in space away from any planets affects, your object would still remain within it's field and not move (at least until you went back far enough for that planet to no longer exist).

Now, if you traveled through time by leaving this universe all together, and moving backwards in time in another universe before returning, then you would be out in the middle of space etc. That being said, you could actually calculate where everything would be at any set time, and if you could move through both time and space in the other universe, you could figure out where in this universe you need to return in order to actually be both when and where you want.

All comes down to how much information you have, and how you are traveling through time.

That is the TLDR version.
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wolfy42 posted...

That is the TLDR version.

You're not PO

You are not allowed to go on Wall 'O Text rants! That is plagiarism!

wolfy42 posted...

If you just suddenly moved through time backwards, you would explode right away when the atoms of whatever is in the time machine collide with other mater/energy in it's path at super fast speeds.

Matter moving backwards in time is indistinguishable from antimatter.

Not at all, because before that I used the time machine to go to the future and turn myself into a space-proof cyborg.

Fatally.
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