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Art
Hi folk,
In the various literature I have read relating to time travel there always seems to be an assumption that if one traveled in time from a time machine located in say one's own living room one would reappear in the same living room (site thereof) either in the present or the future. Is there a reason for this? I'd have thought if you traveled in time then your spatial coordinates would remain unchanged and so you would reappear in the same place but because the universe in in constant motion you would be in a different part of the universe. This would mean that without any time dilation issues resulting from near light speed travel etc you could travel enormous distances by simply staying put. In effect you could visit any part of the universe which has ever passed through the co-ordinates we now occupy. This would also make paradoxes less likely.
Art
In the various literature I have read relating to time travel there always seems to be an assumption that if one traveled in time from a time machine located in say one's own living room one would reappear in the same living room (site thereof) either in the present or the future. Is there a reason for this? I'd have thought if you traveled in time then your spatial coordinates would remain unchanged and so you would reappear in the same place but because the universe in in constant motion you would be in a different part of the universe. This would mean that without any time dilation issues resulting from near light speed travel etc you could travel enormous distances by simply staying put. In effect you could visit any part of the universe which has ever passed through the co-ordinates we now occupy. This would also make paradoxes less likely.
Art