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If Eternalism is real (the theory of past, present, and future existing simultaneously) then time travel is going to a WHERE more than going to a WHEN. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by rscky1@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Elaboration:

Imagine Spacetime as a movie film reel. All of time (past, present, future) exist at the same time just like all the frames of that movie exist on that reel. If you want to time travel you go to the frame location on that reel. That location we call a WHEN but it is also a WHERE on the reel. Also, when physicists state that time and space are interwoven a film reel analogy encapsulates that theory well. So, time travel could be simply going to a specific coordinate in Space.

Theoretical Physicist Sean Caroll uses the film strip analogy in this video:

Sean Carroll Explains Presentism and Eternalism

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

The illusion of time : past, present and future all exist together

Is Time A Single Block? Eternalism And The Andromeda Paradox

Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? | Big Think

Disclaimer: Obviously, I have been watching too many Youtube videos and none of the concepts are my own. But I did think of the WHERE VS. WHEN regarding time travel analogy as I haven't seen anyone state it that way yet.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

theres a book.. i think its called Timescape (1980) that demonstrates this concept.

in the book they send a tachyon stream to the point is space where the earth was in an attempt to let them know of impending doom.

[–] rscky1@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just read the Wiki on that book...I figured my showerthought would be a parallel thought with others since some of the Youtube videos allude to coordinates in Spacetime but I haven't heard anyone phrase it exactly that way. Thanks for that link!

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 10 months ago

i read that book as a kid, and so every single time travel movie has me infuriated that they end up in the same contextual geospatial coordinates on the planet instead of far out in space somewhere