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  • davidgro@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzspeedometers
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    2 months ago

    It would still be possible to answer the speed question, you just get different answers for different substances (and even phases of the same substance) at the same temperature.

    Since something like water does have those additional ways to store energy, my guess is it would be slower at room temp than another liquid with less complex molecules that have about the same mass each. (If there is such a thing)

    Also I expect different answers for each of mean, median, and mode speeds.




  • In most media time machines are also teleporters - many are explicitly so, with the destination space needing to be chosen at the same time as the destination time, but even when that’s not shown they still make the time traveller suddenly vanish and then just suddenly reappear elsewhen.

    One movie I’ve seen with a more “realistic” time machine is Primer. It’s not at all a teleporter or portal. Very slight spoiler:

    It sidesteps the whole issue that OP presents because the place where you exit the machine after traveling is just where the machine is when it’s turned on to begin with. You can’t time travel outside the machine, including to before it exists, and your path (in all four dimensions) is contiguous.