• TheFogan@programming.dev
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      17 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).

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      16 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.

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      17 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

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      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
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        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.