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What if there's a bigger, still unknown reference point? (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 9 months ago by ViscloReader to c/showerthoughts
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When we think about teleportation, there's always someone talking about how you should take into account the earth and the sun moving through space. Let's step back a little (not so much) what if the galaxy we're currently in is rotating really really fast around another, bigger, still unknown, spacial object?

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[–] agent_flounder 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean motion is all relative anyway, right? So would teleportation be like throwing a ball on a train? That is, the ball's motion depends on the frame of reference. So maybe teleporting would work that way if it were actually possible.

[–] CeeBee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now what about time travel?

Technically, Marty McFly should have appeared in space far from anything instead of old man Peabody's Pine farm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Should have why?

[–] CeeBee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Earth itself is moving around the sun at about100,000 km/h and the sun is traveling through the galaxy st about 1 million km/h.

So if Marty went back/forward just one hour then he'd be about 1,100,000 kilometers away from Earth in space (or 900,000 kilometers, depending on the orbital direction of Earth relative to the sun's direction of travel).

And then there's the motion and speed of the Milkyway itself.

This is all assuming that the layout of the underlying fabric of spacetime is absolute (which it seems to be, outside of expansion).