If you could travel through time even one second, you would be in the middle of space. We are moving millions of miles per hour.
True. Wise statement.
A little known SF book The Return of the Time Machine by Egon Friedell (DAW Books, 1972 translation from German) was written by an author who disappeared during the Holocaust and is presumed to have died in a concentration camp.
He wrote that any time machine has to be space travel machine taking into account the constant motion of the Earth and the solar system and galaxy which move at the moment one changes their point in time.
Even one on a second floor apartment going back to before the building was erected or after it was torn down for a fast food joint would land you on the dirt twenty-five feet below where you started. If not many miles away in space.
> If you could travel through time even one second, you would be in the middle of space. <
Einstein covered that with his Theory of Special Relativity. Imagine that there is a circular railroad track on Earth. And a train on that track can go close to the speed of light.
You get on that train, and ride it for a year. No one bothers you. Then you get off. You think it’s the year 2023. And you have aged one year. But maybe 50 years have passed on Earth. It’s now 2072. You have travelled 49 years into the Earth’s future.
Weird, huh? But this has all been verified mathematically and experimentally. See my post #43.
“If you could travel through time even one second, you would be in the middle of space.”
Yup—a glitchy navigation system and you end up on Uranus.
;-)