if you travel in time, do you stay in the same location?

Question

what if you built a time machine in a high rise and went back 200 years.

Answer 1

see the movie BACK TO THE FUTURE 1,2,3

Answer 2

Time travel? Well, I suppose when you build that thing you have to figure in all the life support system and mobility possibility, navigation system and shielding because you will have to move in time, and space as well as to detect obstacles and a time shield to stop the effect of time on the passengers and the machine itself.

They build a snack bar and rest room on a train to accommodate the time you spend there. So, you would have to accommodate the altitude change of the un-built high rise.

I suppose gravity will still work on the machine so you will be pulled along the planet and galaxy. However, without knowing the technology of your time propulsion system, it is hard to say...

Answer 3

Hmm...I think it depends on your method of time travel.

If you are able to actually tear a hole in the fabric of spacetime and enter the "timestream", then no. You won't neccessarily have to stay in the same place. You can chose to exit the "timestream" in the same geolical location or wherever you want. And example of this would be Back to the Future.

Now if you invent a machine can actually control the Spacetime Continuim, then yeah. It's likely that you'll time travel in the exact same spot. An example of this would be the movie, The Time Machine.

Answer 4

You only stay in the same location if you travel backwards in time if that's what you wanted to do. If it wasn't then you go to a different location when you travel back in time. It all depends on where you want to go and what you want to do, when it comes to your location before and after time travel.

Answer 5

It is not meanignful to think of space and time separately, and your impled picture of space as a "canvas" onto which the events of the universe are "painted" also does not work.

Think of this, the Earth is rotating on its axis, orbiting the sun and the sun is orbiting the local cluster and the local cluster is orbiting the galactic centre and the galactic centre is moving etc. In fact, mathematically space-time has to be described as a fibre bundle.

So there is no easy pciture of where, say, the top of your high rise is. But it will not be there in a second. Now if you sit on top of the block, laws like conservation of momentum etc - which apply equally to you and the block itself - keep you together. But mess with time and - splat.

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Answer 6

Logically since there is only one world with only one set of materials and the time idea is shaped from movement of materials in the world you can never go back in time because if you want to do it you should shift the current materials features including there locations to a time before.

so you may only partialy simulate a part of world as it was in the old times or predict its future but it is too complicated for humans for now to do such a thing -just imagine how much power and information of material locations and behavior you want to do this!

Answer 7

nice question, but since nobody has figured out a method of how to travel in time, yet, the question is literaly unanswerable. Einstiens method using extreemly high velocities isn't really time travel, it's closer to a time diferrencing method. Time is so fundemental that it may be impossable to ever accomplish,, but, who knows,, ask me in 20,000 years,, and I'll tell you.

Answer 8

I suppose so, but the area that you are in must change to some degree due to natural processes and human influences. So make sure that you are flying so you don't fall in a crater or something;)

Answer 9

yea with einsteim thery of relativity u do
and if u do so on a high rise gravity will bring u down

Answer 10

To tell you the truth...if I was able to do something like that...the last thing I would be worrying about is the LOCATION! lol

Answer 11

Yes , stay right here; I'm waiting on the future!! I can't go backwards!!