Skullkin Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) When you time travel, you travel through time, staying in the same place as you do so. So, say you want to go to Nazi Germany. You could certainly go back in time to WWII, but because the Earth is always rotating, there's no guarantee that you'll land in Germany... And since the Earth is always rotating around the sun, there's always a chance that you'll miss Earth completely and travel to a time where the Earth is in a different position than the time you left, causing you to land somewhere in space and instantly suffocate to death. See, this is what happens to my brain when I'm given constant college work with no freetime in between. =.= Edited October 21, 2014 by Skullkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 >Implying you wouldn't have to manipulate space as well to get from your current location to the one you want to be at when you go back. Get this shit outta here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Additionally paradoxes would be far too easy to cause, and then you'd have been unable to travel back in time in the first place. Therefore there is an infinite number of timelines all running alongside each other all at different moments in time. Any slight interference would more than likely cause essentially a new branch in the tree trunk of time and splinter off more and more timelines parallel to that as time went on. When you think about timelines I believe the tree metaphor to quite accurate. But then again, we need tempest in here to explain the theory of how to actually time travel first, and then talk about the 12 different dimensions. >Implying you wouldn't have to manipulate space as well to get from your current location to the one you want to be at when you go back. Get this shit outta here. A problem with that is it's not very easy to exactly test said hypothesis to also manipulate space PROPERLY. The results likely wouldn't be able to examined and determined if they were successful or not. They wouldn't be able to see how to adjust from what went wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 It was for the sake of breaking the paradox. But yeah, the alternate timeline shit'd happen and you'd only alter that specific branch. No fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Squad Felicity Posted October 21, 2014 Support Squad Share Posted October 21, 2014 Fuck y'all, I just go so far forward in time that an exact copy of the universe repeats itself, and go to the time I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magus Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Fuck y'all, I just go so far forward in time that an exact copy of the universe repeats itself, and go to the time I want. I've never heard that one before, creative Elfman Edited October 21, 2014 by Magus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I've never heard that one before, creative Elfman It's from a Futurama episode. http://theinfosphere.org/The_Late_Philip_J._Fry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyrus the Priestess Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Let's say you kill off Adolf Hitler or his parents. Time'll probably just find another guy to be Hitler, making what happened inevitable... that is, according to another theory I heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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