• criitz@reddthat.com
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      8 months ago

      I feel like the “actually the earth is moving so you’d end up in space” complaints about teleportation/time-travel rely on some heavy assumptions about how those things would work (eg. What the teleportation power uses as a rest reference frame)

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        8 months ago

        If you ignore physics, you are basically a god / god-like being, and can do anything you want.

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            8 months ago

            And a lot of the theories about how they function involve having such a large mass that it punches a whole in spacetime. Which takes several orders of magnitude more energy than humans have ever produced. Thus making them at will kinda breaks entropy as a concept

            • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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              8 months ago

              So this is probably stupid on my part, because I don’t know a helluva lot about the math or anything and I’m also just being silly but reading this made me think about this:

              What if the wormhole already existed, but was really small? Would it be possible in the physics to stretch the hole larger without using a ton of energy? Or would that, too, require assloads of energy we couldn’t actually produce?

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                8 months ago

                I vaguely recall a story like that. They couldn’t manipulate wormholes but it looked like that because they were common and the superpower was being able to find them