Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pesnta!hplabsb!bl From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: Why shouldn't time travel leave you in the same spot? Message-ID: <3061@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 16:24:15 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsb.3061 Posted: Tue Sep 24 16:24:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 08:14:01 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> <323@looking.UUCP> <2243@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1016@rayssd.UUCP> <609@leadsv.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 13 > Gravity would have no effect on time travel, since time is a dimension > not effected by gravity (I.E. An Earth hour is the same length on Earth > or Jupiter.) Traveling through time is not the same as traveling through > the other 3 dimensions in which gravity would effect your ability to > move through them. Wrong! Gravity affects time the same as relativistic speed. The greater the gravity field, the slower time moves. In fact, time stands still inside a black hole. As for the "problem" of spatial displacement for a time traveler, have it anyway you want. Since backward time travel is impossible, the argument is academic. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com