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Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.

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also because it is genuinely impossible to move faster than light as matter, let alone survive it

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That's why you make the space move around you instead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

That's not related to time travel though, but that's a link to an actual irl concept of a warp engine.

[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

All those random scraps of metal you find lying are just the end result of someone trying to travel back in time and the time machine not surviving

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