Random Sci Fi ideas on time travel

[bolson]

I'm in a time machine in Earth orbit. If I pop forward in time six months, the earth should be on the other side of the sun and the whole solar system would have moved away from me. Maybe my momentum gets continued and similarly scaled so that I continue to move along with the solar system. Maybe the effects of gravity continue and are scaled so that I continue to orbit the sun. Maybe neither of these things are true and it's best to do time travel safely in interstellar space where relatively nothing will be during the whole time-space path of your travels. Or you need to just instantaneously pop out of one time and space and into another. Or 90% of time travel sci fi is broken or inconsistent or has crazy mechanics or is just a plot device and I should learn to stop worrying and enjoy the ride.

Comments

[catya.livejournal.com]

Have you read the recent charles yu book?

[soong.livejournal.com]

Just now I read the first few pages of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and I was amused by its entirely self referential structure. Also the style of the narrative is friendly and funny. This one may go on the to-do list if I remember to get around to it after the curent raft of books.

[catya.livejournal.com]

it's worth reading, but more there's some really interesting time travel mechanics in it.