Why there are no time travelers. - eviltoast
  • AEsheron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The thing is, a time traveling device would be like the one on Futurama. It just makes time flow at different rates. What people generally think of is a time teleport. And due to the nature of spacetime, a time teleport is indistinguishable from a space teleport. So any teleport should require precise spacetime coordinates, and n9t jist either space or time coordinates.

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      1 year ago

      Another interesting thing about futurama‘s time travel is that instead of going backwards in time, they kept going forward until another Big Bang happened, creating a universe identical to their old one. Then they were able to just keep going forward until they reached when they left