DDeRosia82
Temporal Novice
Say it isn\'t so! It would require Geocentricism??
I have enjoyed reading dozens of alleged occurrences of genuine, physical time travel and would really like to believe that they are true. But relatively recently, I encountered a considerable obstacle to my accepting that practical time travel as a layman such as myself imagines it is possible: If the Earth is constantly spinning and circling the Sun, and if the Sun is constantly moving through the Milky Way, and if the Milky Way itself is also constantly moving through the Universe, then it would seem right to assert that the Earth is never in the same space position twice. And if that is the case, then would not anyone who might enter into a time machine in Florida and travel several years into the future reappear millions of miles away from the Earth, which would have since ten years past moved a great distance away from where it was when the time machine vanished into the future?
The popular website Wikipedia's own entry on time travel addresses this very issue. However, the solution that followed it seems to consist of a cop-out that uses Einstein's brilliant Theory of Special Relativity to basically skirt the issue by asserting that spatial locations are completely relative and, therefore, irrelevant.
In order to accept that practical time travel is possible, must I be sacrifice my understanding that our planet is not stationary in space? Say it isn't so!
I have enjoyed reading dozens of alleged occurrences of genuine, physical time travel and would really like to believe that they are true. But relatively recently, I encountered a considerable obstacle to my accepting that practical time travel as a layman such as myself imagines it is possible: If the Earth is constantly spinning and circling the Sun, and if the Sun is constantly moving through the Milky Way, and if the Milky Way itself is also constantly moving through the Universe, then it would seem right to assert that the Earth is never in the same space position twice. And if that is the case, then would not anyone who might enter into a time machine in Florida and travel several years into the future reappear millions of miles away from the Earth, which would have since ten years past moved a great distance away from where it was when the time machine vanished into the future?
The popular website Wikipedia's own entry on time travel addresses this very issue. However, the solution that followed it seems to consist of a cop-out that uses Einstein's brilliant Theory of Special Relativity to basically skirt the issue by asserting that spatial locations are completely relative and, therefore, irrelevant.
In order to accept that practical time travel is possible, must I be sacrifice my understanding that our planet is not stationary in space? Say it isn't so!