• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    It’s possible to assume that the professor did the math.

    But yeah any time machine would also basically have to have space travel built in to compensate.

    They knew that when they wrote Dr Who (IE the time travel machine is called a TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space).

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      12 hours ago

      Nah, this thing with the planet moving under you is stupid because it assumes a fixed reference frame which is not a thing in our universe. Any movement is always relative to something. You can’t just “stay in place”. Having the Earth move from under you is very arbitrary.

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        5 hours ago

        Even if you assume any frame is valid, you have to pick inertial frames. So even if you travel few days, you will be off from earths orbit into space since earth is in circular motion which is acceletared

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, these jokes always assume a jump back in time, not some sort of rewinding for just the traveler.