Graham Kennedy wrote:Space and time are the same thing, so you don't "go back in time" as much as fly a course through spacetime that takes you back in time. It's easy to believe that the same course could take you through space as well, right? And given that you achieve this effect by using warp in close proximity to a large mass like the sun I don't see why it couldn't be the case that the effect binds you to the sun carrying you along with it as it moves.
This is, without hyperbole, the most ridiculous and interesting thing I have read on a sci-fi forum in god knows how long. It is utterly absurd to think about, and yet I agree 100% with you that something like that
would likely happen. Since spacetime is so connected, it makes perfect sense and yet I don't think I've heard this whacky theory thrown about before. Is this just conjecture, Graham, or is there some scholarly theories about this from the likes of Hawking, Penrose, or that ilk? I'm probably about to spend my weekend looking through JStor archives for articles on curvature of time/space. This made me happy beyond belief. Thanks, Graham.
Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away, don't you hear me calling you?