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Gary0509
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- Wormhole opens and safely dumps you at a random point somewhere in our observable universe. How does one determine where they are in relation to their home origin?
Thought experiment I'm wondering if anyone has explored yet.
Imagine by whatever means you like, that your spaceship plucks you out of our solar system and drops you at another random point in the observable universe. Due to light speed limitation, where ever you end up will be looking at our home star (or galaxy) at a point in the past.
I guess there's two questions to this.
Imagine by whatever means you like, that your spaceship plucks you out of our solar system and drops you at another random point in the observable universe. Due to light speed limitation, where ever you end up will be looking at our home star (or galaxy) at a point in the past.
I guess there's two questions to this.
- If you know how far you went, how likely could an A.I. simulator run back our cosmological calendar to determine what our local neighbor would look like given no idea in what direction you went?
- If you had no idea how far you traveled, would it even be possible to determine where home is (or will be)?