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I like this question. It broke my mental model of time travel because I like to think of time as tied to space, maybe. If you want to rewind a thread of time, you can't really stay in the same place and poof, like Christopher Reeve laying in bed. Because the old hotel isn't in that place anymore, at some physical-historical-galactic-geography level.

Maybe it's not meant to work that way though; maybe you can uncouple time and meditate, and your other-conscious travels but in some other way than normal physical travel with forward time, or something like that.




I think that's a cool idea for a story. It also addresses the question of "if time travel were possible, wouldn't we have seen some time travellers by now?" Perhaps somewhere out there in space is a graveyard of time travellers who ended up landing in the empty void that the Earth once occupied in the time they were travelling to.




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