• TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      14 hours 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).

    • potoo22@programming.dev
      7·
      13 hours ago

      There’s a ton of issues with time travel. That could be one, but most fictional time-travel devices can be said to accommodate for the difference in distance. It would just be boring to explain on-screen.

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      That’s why doctor who works, its very clear about the fact that TARDIS travels in spacetime, it can do only time, only space or both space and time and they can get away with time traveling and still staying on earth

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      3·
      14 hours ago

      It could be explained as a time and space machine but just saying time machine is easier.

      That’s how ive always thought of these things in my head.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
        3·
        13 hours ago

        but imagine if you could set it to the same time but different distance, it would allow you to teleport, that might be too strong.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 hours ago

    Also ghosts likely wouldn’t be affected by a gravitational pull, so the concept doesn’t make sense and there’d just be a trail of ghosts in space.

  • Malle_Yeno@pawb.social
    2·
    10 hours ago

    It should be illegal to remind people (me, particularly) about Steins;Gate while they’re at work

    I can’t be fucking crying on the clock, dawg

    • Codeviper828@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      At least in Doctor Who, the T.A.R.D.I.S. can’t teleport through space as well as through time, solving that problem. But most time machines don’t

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Oooohh. Thanks for the tip, just added that into my time travelling port o pottie’s destination algorithms. Gotta respect the earth be moving and shit.

  • Jimius@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Also, the earth will never be in the same place twice. So it’s not even like you can only jump increments of a solar year.

    • lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      10 hours ago

      And its not like there even is a same place. Position is relative, but to what in this case? Doesn’t even make sense

  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Same place relative to what?

    It’s space-time, not space and time. Moving backwards in one moves you backwards in the other.