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Originally posted by giblets View PostWhy is there no time travel in Star Wars?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Oh crap a real physicist.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Traveller was a little before my time, or just not what my group ever got into. I wish we did more SF role-playing.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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There's a time-travel RPG out there called Continuum that I wish I could get my group to play.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Well, I think it was written and published by, basically, some dudes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(role-playing_game)Last edited by Lorizael; August 21, 2017, 10:54.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Neither of these forms of time travel resemble the classic science fiction idea of a time machine, however. If you pop out of existence at time t and pop back into existence at t-1000, is it at all clear where you should be spatially?
The only other way I can see is the science fiction story I ended up writing called the 'long way home'. What I did was have a 'time machine builder construct his time machine in a sealed pod. The pod was in a vacuum with it's precise geospationary coordinates recorded. It's easy enough for a computer to compute spacetime transformations of that set of coordinates. The machine was powered with a small reactor. It would disintegrate the user and depending on the energy stored, would determine how far it could teleport you through spacetime and then reassemble you back at the beginning. It would require an amazingly large computer to store the atomic contents of the body as well as their precise location and arrangement. Sort of a souped up teleporter, but with the sealed ingress.
Then the time machine builder could go back to the instant he first built the machine. The paradox being that he could never travel further back in the past than to his time machine with it's precise coordinates. It would also prevent the causality issues surrounding changing events preventing him from building the time machine, etc.
To solve the spatial issues - just park a car next to your time pod. The restrictions made for an interesting story because it meant you didn't have to worry about things like where the time pod was located, but you *did* have to worry about concealing the building and things like that.
The story began with his time pod malfunctioning, sending him way back into the past and writing about THAT end of time travel, what his life was like on the other end.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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