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Q&A Where does the Temporal Protection Agency get its intel?

Imagine a world with time travel, got it? Good. Now imagine that time has multiple dimensions. Time has its OWN dimension of time, along which it can evolve. This is called hypertime, or "w" (As i...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Douglas‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Douglas‭

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Q&A Wouldn't a spaceship traveling at luminal or near light speeds come back to find earth hundreds of years in the future

If a spaceship left earth traveling at near or at light speeds (that being possible in this situation) would they not when coming back to earth, arrive many years in the future due to Einstein's th...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Cameron Leary‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Cameron Leary‭

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Q&A How do I explain checkpoints without magic?

Checkpoints have been a staple of video games for decades and are almost as old as video games themselves, but how? These little tiny features have made a huge difference in the way we play games, ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A How would floating point numbers be affecting space and time travel in future?

Each technology, that is evolving, begins with simple piece of programming code that starts with variables of certain data types. It is interesting to note that many calculative and computing techn...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Karan Desai‭

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Q&A How to find out a year I'm in?

Let's assume I can travel in a space-time on Earth. Every time I jump I get to almost the same place, but in different past time relative to the first jump: it solves the problem of planet rotation...

14 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by abyss.7‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by abyss.7‭

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Q&A How to design puzzles for an ancient period in Earth history?

I'm writing a Earth history time travel story, and the main character needs to solve puzzles from each time period he visits. I'm going very far back in history and I'm concerned about being able t...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Scrungo‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Scrungo‭

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Q&A Would a time-travelling blockchain destroy a cryptocurrency?

The story So Bob, the multi-billionaire, is a wealthy person today but in a not so far away future he will lose quite a chunk of his wealth and become just an ordinary millionaire. Future Bob is ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Armfoot‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Armfoot‭

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Q&A Travel (how far?) into the future using a black hole and light-speed space craft?

A person is traveling in a space craft that was designed and built by sufficiently advanced aliens. This space craft left from Earth and is capable of traveling infinitely close to the speed of lig...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by jakecento‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by jakecento‭

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Q&A How to keep a machine running for thousands of years

How would I future-proof a complex machine or set of machines so that they will still be running 2000-3000 years from now? Is this possible with our current level of engineering and we just don't d...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A Is our memory capable of repeating exactly a full day of memorized actions?

Major William die in a combat versus aliens. Now he have the capacity to wake up on the same point of time every time he dies. (Movie: Edge of tomorrow) He uses this power to win the war, but he h...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Malkev‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Malkev‭

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Q&A Sending some people into the far future

And I mean faaaaar future. Like, twenty thousand years minimum. 13 million years at maximum. Let's say the Earth is doomed and to avoid the impending extinction of the human race, we throw most o...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A What psychological problems can result from experiencing death on several occasions?

I am a clockmaker: I work with time and can control it on a small scale. One of my powers allow me to return some minutes back in time after having experienced my death, but I remember everything ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Malkev‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Malkev‭

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Q&A Forward time travel via strong gravitational forces

A scientist has recently invented a gravity machine. This machine pulls all mass within a certain radius (say 50 feet?) towards it at an adjustable rate. The machine can... create as strong a g...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Aarthew III‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Aarthew III‭

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Q&A Oil drilling in the Cretaceous possible?

It's the year 2100, oil reserves are mostly used up. In this hard times Evil Corp has invented time travel and it send back engineers and material to drill for oil in the Creaceous. The question:...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by EvilFonti‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by EvilFonti‭

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Q&A Will this approach work for a time traveler to recreate penicillin?

This question is closely related to, but more specific, than the question/comment that inspired it: Could a modern times time traveler produce an antibiotic in medieval times?. Imagine a person is...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A How will people approach person beamed from a past?

Question inspired by movies Minority Report and Her The year is 2050, USA: The future is "realistically optimistic": We, the humans, have steady progress in computers and AI: We use wearable AI, w...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A How far in the future would a modern human need to go before they were functionally a different species than people of the time?

A staple of fantasy involving time travel is the hero (or heroine) zipping off into the future and then meeting a future lover with whom they go on to have wacky time-based adventures before presum...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by ckersch‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ckersch‭

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Q&A What if time travel had to take into account spatial distance?

In this setting, humanity has advanced to the technological capability of extra stellar travel via faster-than-light drives. However, due to distances between inhabited areas being extremely large,...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Zer0ah‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Zer0ah‭

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Q&A Is "Time Travel" to the future currently possible?

I was wondering if there is a realistic way that one can "travel" to the future, using today's technology. Two scenarios I have thought of: An individual is put under cryogenic freezing and then ...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by crusarovid‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by crusarovid‭