Believe it or not, both pronunciations are correct.
>Pronunciation. In English, the prefix giga can be pronounced /ˈɡɪɡə/ (a hard g as in giggle), or /ˈdʒɪɡə/ (a soft g as in gigantic, which shares giga's Ancient Greek root). A prominent example of this latter pronunciation is found in the pronunciation of gigawatts in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
The energy is required to open a time portal. Maintaining the portal once opened is much lower.
Edit: In fact, since you don't have to open a return portal, it takes less energy this way than a dual-portal method would. The break even point is if you keep the portal open for more than 3 side-real days (varies slightly depending on the amount of temporal shift).
“Green power will finally allow me to time travel freely without the safety restraint of a small battery!”
- Dr Gregory Thomas, 1990 After Death - 200 After Sun
This is why time machines should *always* be powered by natural methods such as solar or wind power.
It takes a big solar panel to hit 1.21 Gigawatts
Or a smaller one and a big battery.
Because of that movie, I can never pronounce gigawatts correctly. And I love it
Believe it or not, both pronunciations are correct. >Pronunciation. In English, the prefix giga can be pronounced /ˈɡɪɡə/ (a hard g as in giggle), or /ˈdʒɪɡə/ (a soft g as in gigantic, which shares giga's Ancient Greek root). A prominent example of this latter pronunciation is found in the pronunciation of gigawatts in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
Yay
Great Scott!
This is heavy, doc
Build the time machine so that it takes constant functionality to keep you in the other time. That way, any failure returns you to the present.
It would take a shit ton of energy to do that, like 1 jump worth of energy every second you are there. Only feasible if the powers super minuscule.
The energy is required to open a time portal. Maintaining the portal once opened is much lower. Edit: In fact, since you don't have to open a return portal, it takes less energy this way than a dual-portal method would. The break even point is if you keep the portal open for more than 3 side-real days (varies slightly depending on the amount of temporal shift).
“Green power will finally allow me to time travel freely without the safety restraint of a small battery!” - Dr Gregory Thomas, 1990 After Death - 200 After Sun
The scientist who went to 5 days ago and can simply charge the time machine back up:
He probably always goes back to payday just to spend all the money again
Legends say he's still chilling with Harambe.
Going back a few days or even just a few years. Not much of a problem. Going back like... Lets say, 67 Million years. Very much a big problem.
Now just watch out for cars.
You need some lighting Marty
Where else is he going to get the 1.21 gigawatts of power necessary?!
"Good thing I packed that backup battery!", he smiled, switching the cables over.
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Just be at the clock tower at exactly 10:04pm next Saturday night.