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Could use such a ship as a time machine (well, that only goes one way).
by jcadam 3y ago
Could use such a ship as a time machine (well, that only goes one way).
- tshaddox 3y agoDo you mean that someone in the space ship could, without extending their own lifespan beyond what is already expected, use the space ship to "travel" to Earth's distant future?
- hackerlight 3y agoKip Thorne said it's theoretically possible. One end of the wormhole is on earth, the other is on the spaceship. Then you fly the spaceship and hop into the wormhole and arrive into the future on Earth.
- wholinator2 3y agoYou don't even need the wormhole. You just accelerate away to relativistic speeds then turn around and come back. It doesn't matter which direction you're going, just that you're going _fast_.
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- ithkuil 3y agoPrecisely. That's the famous Twin "paradox" (which is not a paradox)
- daedalus_j 3y agoThe Forever War novels have this as a key plot point, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
- dtgriscom 3y agoMy comfy chair is a one-way time machine.
- checkyoursudo 3y agoBest thing is that it works in real time. No need to futz with fancy formulas. Just wait long enough and bam you're in the future.
- agos 3y agoobligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/209/ https://xkcd.com/209/