Is there a piece of media that deals with the location issue properly? Always assumed that time travel would leave you in a “fixed” point in space and you’d need to accurately figure out where exactly you want to pop out
Once you get into real science where the Sun and Earth travel through space, either you have some sort of anchor device (meaning you can’t go back before that anchor was made), or it’s proper use of a black hole or some sort of singularity where things like lightspeed travel is already solved, and there’s an established pair of terminus points.
One explanation could be that the time machine is anchored to the 🌞 gravity well, so it can find the position based on where the 🌞 is. In said setting, you’re also limited to only traveling whole years.
The John Titor writers/hoaxers said that the Time Machine had two quantum singularities. They added the second one to lock the travel to earths gravitational field after their testing put the machines miles away
There is no “fixed” point in the universe. Everything is relative. A time-travel story that takes into account the motion solar system around the galaxy or somesuch is trying to be clever but actually fails science harder than the naive “same location on Earth” approach.
Is there a piece of media that deals with the location issue properly? Always assumed that time travel would leave you in a “fixed” point in space and you’d need to accurately figure out where exactly you want to pop out
Once you get into real science where the Sun and Earth travel through space, either you have some sort of anchor device (meaning you can’t go back before that anchor was made), or it’s proper use of a black hole or some sort of singularity where things like lightspeed travel is already solved, and there’s an established pair of terminus points.
One explanation could be that the time machine is anchored to the 🌞 gravity well, so it can find the position based on where the 🌞 is. In said setting, you’re also limited to only traveling whole years.
The John Titor writers/hoaxers said that the Time Machine had two quantum singularities. They added the second one to lock the travel to earths gravitational field after their testing put the machines miles away
You can’t define a “fixed” point in space without using something as reference. Might as well use the Earth.
There is no “fixed” point in the universe. Everything is relative. A time-travel story that takes into account the motion solar system around the galaxy or somesuch is trying to be clever but actually fails science harder than the naive “same location on Earth” approach.