"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> I always thought that it could be possible to go forward in time by some
> arbitrary amount just by making a close orbit around a black hole.  The
> closer you go, the more time you can jump forward.  So just type in the year
> 3050 to your ship, it fires you off towards the nearest black hole, and a
> few months later you return back towards Earth in the year 3050 +/- a few
> months ;-)
>
> Or doesn't it work like that?

Exactly that way. Although maybe you'd need quite some acceleration to get there
- and back again - soon enough for 3050 ;)

And then again, speeding up, travelling a while at high speed, then putting the
gear shift to reverse and head back may do the job just as well. No need for a
black hole. You wouldn't want your Windows CE based guidance computer to crash
*there*...

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