Gedd
December 8, 2011, 1:50pm
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Stranger_On_A_Train:
However, there is a larger problem with space travel. Because your time machine needs to account for not only displacement through time but also the change in kinetic and potential energy states along your path in space-time, you have to make up the difference between your momentum vector at the start and end of your time travel. This means you have to apply a momentum change and the corresponding energy difference that exceeds the solar escape speed at the Earth’s orbit by an order of magnitude times the interval you transit (not accounting for any other relativistic effects). So, basically, your time machine also has to have sufficient impulse to be a credible interstellar spaceship. Mr. Fusion isn’t going to cut it. You need some kind of unholy energies that are only available by opening a portal and invoking the aid of one of the Great Old Ones, and we know where that path leads…
Stranger
That’s why we have the Infinite Improbability Drive . Problem solved (in a very deus ex machina way).
Mhis Mis Mhe Miver. Me Man’t Malk Mere.
Muh? Moh, mu’re might, me man’t malk mere.
BMalion
December 8, 2011, 10:52pm
23
Tthhiiss iiss tthhee ppoorrttrraaiitt ggaalleerryy!!
I’ve forgotten the key, but I’ve got a couple of lids out in the car.
tdn
December 9, 2011, 5:28pm
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That’s pretty unlikely. The Earth does not travel in exactly the same path every year. And even if it did, the likelyhood of you crossing in your exact path is mighty slim.