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Playing it safe, the scientist decided to set the time machine to go back just five minutes into the past for his first test. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Morph9@lemmy.zip to c/twosentencehorror@sh.itjust.works

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Seconds later, his dead corpse floated through space, reflecting in his lifeless wide open eyes the blue planet slowly approaching.

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[–] mechanismatic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In case anyone else was wondering:

"Earth orbits around the sun at a speed of 67,100 miles per hour (30 kilometers per second)."

So 9000 kilometers away in 5 minutes.

But then the milky way spins at around 200-250 km/s, so there's that displacement also.

If a time machine only travels through time and not space, would parts of the time machine travel through time at miniscule differences such that the power source is hundreds of kilometers away from the controls and thus the machine wouldn't work beyond the initial activation?

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

One final twist on the displacement, the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang.

[–] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

And in a gargantuan coincidence of improbability all these displacement vectors just so happened to cancel out perfectly the time the time machine was activated. Leading to the catastrophe that was the second activation…

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the origin location of the big bang

And that location is... ? :)

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

gestures vaguelly

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Minor correction: changed 'the origin location' to 'its origin location'

Wherever the blue shift stops when measuring cosmic background radiation I suppose.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still take issue with the wording "the milky way is also being moving away from its origin location of the big bang". The milky way isn't moving away from its origin location, everything else is.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

And from every other point of reference, the milky way galaxy is moving away from it.

And then also, everything within the milky way is moving away from itself.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, that's the whole point of a time machine. You need it to ignite and launch within a single quantum (or rather, as a hint, each of its action must last that long, you can still have multiple stages).