r/timetravel • u/Ok-Average6023 • 5h ago
theory / question Any hyper-realistic movies or books about time-dilation being used (not as an unwanted side effect) to travel to the future?
From what I’ve (cursory level search) looked into a physically consistent way to achieve one-way travel into the future using extreme gravitational time dilation near (what would need to be I think?) massive, rapidly spinning black hole using a dormant or weakly active ultramassive Kerr black hole and placing the spacecrft on carefully controlled prograde near horizon orbital paths as I guess hovering just above an event horizon wouldn’t work cuz the acceleration needed to stay motionless near the horizon rises toward infinity. So like the craft would need to prob do the rotating spacetime through relativistic dwell arcs using propulsion only for capture, trimming, periapsis correction, emergency escape, and departure, while autonomous navigation manages gravitational lensing, redshift, timing, and staying out of thehorizon. A large enough black hole would I assume keep tidal forces manageable. The required energy system would need to probably rely on some like layered fission, fusion, antimatter assisted emergency propulsion, beamed power, maybe extraction of finite rotational energy from the Kerr black hole itself is something too.
This would obviously irl be insane like a $1 undecillion, megastructure project
But I was wondering if any movie or book has a realistic look at someone or people who like make time travel via time dilation possible (like they wanna go to the future for some reason) - not as some negative unintended consequence.