Why The Tardis Is The Perfect Spacetime Machine
Often,in my reading repertoire,I will go backand reread one of my favorite books from my youth.I recently decided to reread"The Time Machine,"byH.G. Wells.
A classic?Of course.But,reading it as an adult,it got me to thinking.Spoiler Alert.H. G. Wells' main character invents aTime Machine,which he uses to travel 800,000 years into the future.This got me thinking aboutTime Travelingon it's own.First,the basics. Would you be able to breath? 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. 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 your 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, as tidal friction, it 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 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 water today, but what of 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 Earth. 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. 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 only 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 whyTime Travelis so difficult.Besides the power constraints.You have to calculate inMinkowski Space.
The person who first came up with
Spacetime.
You will need a craft that travels in
Space
as well as in
Time.Which brings us back to theTardis.The perfectSpacetime 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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A classic?Of course.But,reading it as an adult,it got me to thinking.Spoiler Alert.H. G. Wells' main character invents aTime Machine,which he uses to travel 800,000 years into the future.This got me thinking aboutTime Travelingon it's own.First,the basics. Would you be able to breath? 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. 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 your 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, as tidal friction, it 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 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 water today, but what of 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 Earth. 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. 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 only 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 whyTime Travelis so difficult.Besides the power constraints.You have to calculate inMinkowski Space.
The person who first came up with
Spacetime.
You will need a craft that travels in
Space
as well as in
Time.Which brings us back to theTardis.The perfectSpacetime 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!
Like what you are reading?Sign up as a Follower,or Set up my Blogas your Homepageon your Web-browser,or Leave a Comment,or a Suggestion,and I will answer you in a Post.
Thanks for reading.
If you are reading this on aCell-Phone,below this story you will see aLinkwhere it says;View Web Version.To truly get the full benefit of myBlog,I suggest you view the web version.You will just have to expand the page to be able to read it.
Thanks again.
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