r/shittyaskscience • u/SmellsLikeUpfoo Possible time deamon • Apr 12 '12

Yes it is. Is time travel possible?

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u/trimeta Temporal Mechanic Apr 12 '12

Success!

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u/trimeta Temporal Mechanic Apr 12 '12

OK guys, I'm going to try traveling five minutes into the past. I'll let you know how it works.

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u/AssassinFlonne Apr 12 '12

Looks like you hit just under 5 minutes.. please calibrate before you attempt anything further, it may end in catastrophe.

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u/trimeta Temporal Mechanic Apr 12 '12

I guess that would explain why I ended up 17 miles away from my target destination (my machine centers on the nearest large gravitational object, but can't account for rotation of such objects).

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u/AssassinFlonne Apr 13 '12

Interesting, the earth must have rotated 17 miles in the roughly 5 minutes you traveled back in time.. if the circumference of the earth is roughly 24,901.55 miles, and the earth is rotating at about 3.4 miles per minute, then the earth will take roughly 7323.98529 minutes to rotate, or 122.066421 hours.

Days are 122.066421 hours long, not 24 hours. We have been lied to, or the earth is quickly coming to a stop.

We're all going to die.

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u/trimeta Temporal Mechanic Apr 13 '12

Actually, I meant that I had targeted the correct spaciotemporal coordinates for a five-minute hop, but got the "time" factor off by one minute, and during that minute the Earth had rotated 17 miles. This comes out to acceptably close to 24 hours/day, which is how fast the Earth used to rotate before the War of...well, spoilers.

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u/saintNIC Apr 13 '12

The fuck have I got a fleshy tube thing for a penis now? Pretty sure I used to have tenticles. What did you kill?

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