h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

All I wanted was to change what I had for breakfast and now I've got whooshing noises by the sink; somebody at the door asking to borrow a cup of energy; mysterious paper cuts I don't remember getting; a feeling that I've done all this several times before; three empty tequila bottles; a sense of being displaced and an e-mail from Dr G Li that hasn't been sent yet headed `Physician, spell-check thyself.`

Must... reach... Paracetamol...

If you go to my page then you'll know I lave little respect for spell checkers. I will, however, be coming back from the future when someone has designed a desent spell checker to re-do all of my forum posts.

That was good. LOL.

Seriously, though, you've just hit on another big problem time-travel theorists have been coming up against since the whole idea started, and something most writers don't even bother to talk about.

You know what happens when you crack the sound barrier: big explosion of noise carried along the way. Why? Because the air is being pushed aside at a tremendous rate, and clapping back together once it's made the trip round the aircraft.

Okay, now suppose you remove two hundred pounds of flesh and clothing suddenly from this timescape. Another sonic boom as you suddenly leave this vacuum sitting in the middle of the room, and the air rushes in.

Another problem: reappearing. One of two possibilities: 1) matter cannot exist in the same place as other matter at the same point in time. So if you suddenly appear without moving the air molecules aside first, there's going to be a very big explosion in the nearby vicinity, and probably an earthquake or two to boot. Oh yes, and you're dead, being at ground zero. Or, 2) the air is pushed aside naturally in some way, or maybe by some miracle, and so you cause a huge dust storm as the molecules are pushed together. You're not going to be able to breathe for a few seconds as all the air is pressurized away from you, and the boom immediately following your arrival is probably going to make you want to clap your ears in agony.

But hey, you made it!

Uhm... Are we quite sure time exists? As a dimension? That really doesn't make sense, if we are to belive the ponderings of the above posts...
Could time be just a function of movement? Some sort of great equation where time and movement are reliant on eachother, but with different effects at different values... The faster you move, the faster time goes by, until you reach a speed where time slows down as you accelerate... Might explain why my workingdays are so much loonger than my days off...

Just a thought.

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