Timeline for My mysterious "ruins" wander around and change on their own, what'd be a rational way for them to do that?
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 16:25 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | It’s the art of authorship to make it palatable. In any way that teleporting structures can be made “rational,” mine is thrown on the heap. I know I won’t solve time travel paradoxes in the comments section today, but they still seem to be entertaining. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 16:00 | comment | added | Matthew | Has anyone ever written a story with junk science? I can swallow "time travel" that accounts for the Earth's motion, because you'd have a pretty terrible story otherwise. Accounting for the Earth's orbital motion but not its rotation (or vice verse) is a little harder to swallow. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:59 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | Also if the time travel happens exactly at noon or midnight the direction of travel will be parallel to the surface of the earth. At sunset, you’re in space. At sunrise, ouch. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | Has that ever once stopped a time-travel story? I literally just finished Douglas Richard’s Split Second which does this exact trick - move an object through the fourth dimension only, and after he spent a chapter explaining how the teleportation is caused by the movement of the earth, he hand-waves that “Turns out, the universe won’t allow two things to exist in the same space, so the teleportation ‘appears’ in the closest unoccupied space.” I don’t agree with it but it seems to sell. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:51 | comment | added | Matthew | The planet (is it Earth?) will also move in its orbit quite a bit in minutes, or even seconds. Those buildings are going to rematerialize either deep inside the planet or rather far out in space... | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 2:01 | history | edited | Vogon Poet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 | history | answered | Vogon Poet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |