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I have a short story for this! My solution to "where are all the time travelers" is that we are unable to correct for motion, we send people in the past but th

I have a short story for this! My solution to "where are all the time travelers" is that we are unable to correct for motion, we send people in the past but they end up million of kilometers away in space. So the past is perfectly accessible, but we can't get to any useful spacetime coordinate.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
That seems as though it could be solved by making very short trips back and allowing the local gravity to continually correct your velocity and positioning until you reach your destination.
- riffraff 6y ago
  yes, but you need a lot of energy to move some matter in a single jump, so more jumps mean exponentially more initial energy because of something akin to a "time-rocket-equation" (you need to bring more mass to get energy but that means more mass or spending more time in a place to re-accumulate it). It's a fun idea though, thanks :)