Timeline for Plausible reason why my time machine can only go back a certain amount of time?
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 5:07 | comment | added | somebody | IMO infinite energy doesn't make sense, since the other time machine did only have finite energy, meaning the explosion couldn't emit/contain an infinite amount of energy | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | Michael Brown | That suddenly becomes like the Flash's speed force. | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | user10328 | It wouldn't need to be a previous time machine, now would it? | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 18:32 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | If exponentially, then if you have enough energy to burn then you can recover it on the other side of the reverse black hole. Wait... you wanted to slow down? I thought you were aiming to get to the start of the universe? Oh, well you're in for the ride now. Enjoy your -80 000 000 second / second journey! | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | user3161729 | @JJJ Or maybe trying to go further back in time creates the explosion in the first place ;) | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | mbomb007 | Bonus points if the energy released from the explosion in 1941 is the energy that makes time travel possible at all. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 19:29 | comment | added | Devsman | @BlindKungFuMaster What happens if they crash another one in the future? :O | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 12:14 | comment | added | Alissa | @JJJ You can then invent some kind of hyper-time which will allow to pass that blast :) | |
| Aug 2, 2018 at 6:26 | comment | added | JJJ | @JohnMontgomery that's going to bite you when writing a sequel in which you need to go back further in time. ;) | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 9:39 | comment | added | BlindKungFuMaster | I think this answer provides the best opportunities to spice up the plot. Who crashed the time machine? Was it intentional, to seal off the past? Can that seal be broken? Or can the trick be used again to seal off the more recent past, after it has been changed? | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 0:21 | comment | added | John Montgomery | I like this answer, though rather than exponentially I'd say asymptotically - you can get really close to that point in time, but passing it would require infinite energy, not just a prohibitively large amount, so you don't have to worry about the possibility of a better power source from the future (fits the black hole analogy better too). | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 8:37 | history | answered | user3161729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |