• ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I guess that depends on whether you only travel through time (time vs space), or whether you follow the time-line back (aka. travel through time and space, kinda like both you and I are doing right now).

    EDIT: there’s also the reference point, and whether you can bring a physical vessel, or have to possess your younger self.

    Back to the Future appears to be using a kind of relative spatial reference point, and you bring your body along the ride.

    Contrary, Steins Gate (the part shown in the series) uses a body as reference, and has you “possess” said body. Though it hints that Back to the Future-like travel is also possible.

    Not sure if I can name any story where time and space are disconnected.

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      Larry niven and the known space universe. Doesn’t have time travel, but does have a form of teleportation, where you have to offset the energies for velocity changes between teleport target and teleport destination.

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        Larry Niven also wrote that hard science fiction is giving the audience enough information for them to tell you it wouldn’t work.