A Thought Experiment

I have been busy lately so I haven't had the time to write here on my
Blog.
That may sound ridiculous to you since,
supposedly,
we are still on quarantine.
But,
really,
I have been.
With family matters that I will not go into details here on this
Blog.
Certain family matters should always stay within the family.
Not for the world to see
or judge.
So I would like to bring back one of my favorite
Thought Experiments
I had in recent years.
From July 24th 2018 my
Post
Why The Tardis Is The Perfect Spacetime Machine

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Often,

when I want something to read,

I will go back

and reread one of my favorite books from my youth.

I recently decided to reread

"The Time Machine,"

by

H.G. Wells.

A classic?

Of course.

But,

reading it as an adult,

it got me thinking.

Spoiler Alert.

H. G. Wells' main character invents a

Time Machine,

which he uses to travel 800,000 years into the future.

I thought about
Time Travel.

First,

the basics.

   Would you be able to breath when you landed back on Earth? During the Permian–Triassic extinction period, enormous volcanic eruptions filled the air with carbon dioxide, which fed different kinds of bacteria that began emitting large amounts of methane. The Earth warmed, and the oceans became acidic. Killing 96% of life that existed at the time. With today's Global Warming, who is to say what kind of atmosphere the Earth will have 800,000 years into the future.
   Now, how does one know, when traveling 800,000 years into the future, that the spot where you started from, isn't now part of a large oak tree, or maybe part of a building, and you materialize into one of them? Or, through Plate Tectonics, that the land mass where you started from isn't now underwater? Remember, 270 million years ago, there was only one land mass on Earth called Pangaea. Until it broke up, because of those Plate Tectonics, into the Continents we love and know today.
   Eight hundred thousand years into the future, why would you think that you would materialize on the same spot anyways. A million or two, years ago, the Earth was spinning on it's Axis a lot faster then it is today. Due to a transfer of the Earth's rotational momentum to the Moon's orbital momentum, which is called tidal friction. This is slowing the Earth's rotation down. It is only 4 cm a year, or 1.57480315 inches per year. But, times that by 800,000 years, you will have moved 19.8838782 miles away from your original starting point.
   You might also be buried underground. It is estimated that almost 300 metric tons of cosmic dust and meteorites falls to the Earth each day. The Earth is getting bigger. Three hundred metric tons might not seem like a lot, but times that by 800,000 years and you get 5.29109e11 pounds of extra debris on the planet. (This Link is for those who don't know what the e stands for on a calculator.) Sure, a lot of it falls into the oceans, but some of it on land. So what would the landscape of the Earth look like in the future?
   Now it goes deeper then this. At first I figured, since the Earth is traveling through space at a rate of 19 miles per second on it's elliptical orbit around the Sun, you would have to choose the same date each year for your materializing or landing on the planet. You would have to calculate in for each Leap Year as you travel because it takes the Earth 365.242375 days to travel around the Sun. If you choose some random date, the Earth might be on the opposite side of the Sun.
   But it even gets deeper then that. According to NASA, our solar system is orbiting the center of the milky galaxy at a velocity of about 828,000km/h or 514,000 mph. Which means, even if you only went forward one year in time, our solar system would have moved 187,610,000 miles away from the spot you started from. You would end up closer to a Mars' orbit then to the planet Earth's.

This is why

Time Travel

is so difficult.

Besides the power constraints.

You have to calculate in

Minkowski's Space.
The person who first came up with the concept of
Spacetime.
You will need a craft that travels in
Space
as well as in
Time.

Which brings us back to the

Tardis.

The perfect

Spacetime Traveling Machine.

This is,

Yes,

This Is The Kind Of Stuff I Think About,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”
- Michio Kaku -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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