Re: Time machine

Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> pekat:
> Roger Mills sekalge:
> > Small problem:  exactly _where_ would you have the Time Machine
> send
> you?
> > :-)) Better take along an *ekwos just in case you need to
> relocate......
>
> Better a spacecraft. There's a little problem with time travel. In
> an
> hour, the world moves a significant distance (if I recall
> truthfully, 600
> miles, not to mention rotation).
Relative to what?

 In seven thousand years, it moves
> much
> more. The sun also moves a lot in that time, as well as this galaxy.
Again, relative to what?  Also, as Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> already
wrote, a time machine might "remain stationary relative to the dominant
gravitional field."  If this is the case, the movement of the earth would
not be a problem.

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