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I'm not exactly sure what to make of this, but if the facts are correct, then this could eventually change the world. picked by Mershaullk 2 years ago

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5	ieldanth

2 years ago

« TheBlueFrog : Make a sphere with a radius that is 1 mile greater than the sun, positioned perfectly around the sun (a shell that is 1 mile away from the sun everywhere). That is the 'input' as it were, for your time machine. Every bit of matter and energy that crosses that line is sent, through compensation to the exact location of the sun 1 year in the past. The moment you switch the machine on, that moment to which all of the energy was sent, the sun's output would essentially double. How comfy do you think it would be on earth 8 minutes later?

Or start the same way, with the radius exactly the same as the sun, with a steadily decreasing radius. You would double the mass, and density of the sun... probably with quite a disastrous result.

One of the things often forgotten in time-travel stories is the fact that you have to travel through time and space to get back to a particular event. If you only travel back a year, but don't move through space, you will come out millions of miles from Earth. What if the transmission line is opened on the surface of the Earth but we forgot to compensate for the movement of the Earth and Sun? Would the atmosphere get sucked out into space?

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