Existential dread? … they are my favourite scifi thought experiments
Imagine being the first to travel far away from our star system to the point where you can no longer see our home sun … hopefully you are able to navigate back to our home star system. Hopefully the science and technology is accurate enough to return you home. Otherwise if anything is off by even a small amount, you’ll either become helplessly lost, or run out of fuel to make the return journey.
Time travelling? … any time you jump in time, it is either extremely complicated or more likely impossible to navigate back to an accurate reference point in the universe. You can go back six months in time but you’ll never be able to pinpoint where in the universe you will end up because the earth is moving through space, the solar system is moving and so is the galaxy constantly through time … so time travellers may be floating around in random space everywhere because they could never figure out where they would end up.
I needed more existential dread so thanks for this. <3
Existential dread? … they are my favourite scifi thought experiments
Imagine being the first to travel far away from our star system to the point where you can no longer see our home sun … hopefully you are able to navigate back to our home star system. Hopefully the science and technology is accurate enough to return you home. Otherwise if anything is off by even a small amount, you’ll either become helplessly lost, or run out of fuel to make the return journey.
Time travelling? … any time you jump in time, it is either extremely complicated or more likely impossible to navigate back to an accurate reference point in the universe. You can go back six months in time but you’ll never be able to pinpoint where in the universe you will end up because the earth is moving through space, the solar system is moving and so is the galaxy constantly through time … so time travellers may be floating around in random space everywhere because they could never figure out where they would end up.