Roland Deschain
All things serve the beam
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2015
- Messages
- 518
No, Einstein established that time and space are relative - in other words, there is no absolute time or space.
I've discussed this before - if you say 'the planet is no longer there' you need to explain where 'there' is. What is this position relative to? The earth, the sun, the centre of the galaxy? Since Einstein also explained gravity in his general theory, it seems to me that the most consistent way of thinking about time or dimension slips, or ghosts even, is to assume that these things remain trapped by the strongest gravitational field locally. So all things that originate on earth somehow remain on earth, or at least within its gravitational sphere of influence.
I would argue that the planet would have changed position relative to itself to a distance of velocity x time. If an object on that planet was moved in time relative to its own starting point then I would assume it had been uncoupled from the "normal" flow of time and therefore the change in position would no longer match that of the planet.
I like the idea of the time sliding object being trapped by the strongest gravitational field - but complete with velocity and vectors to put it in the right place on the ground? Why doesn't this time travelling object get pulled to the centre of the planet, or a lagrangian point? Does the moon distort where it ends up? Sorry but I still prefer simulation glitches