How was the initial jump made?
I just watched The Tomorrow War. I actually have quite a few questions but I will start with just this one.
In the movie, fairly early on it is explained that time travel is only possible between the current year (2022) and the future where the war is occurring (2048). This is because there is a time link between these two points in time: they move forward in time together with a fixed 'distance'. You can't, for example, jump from 2048 to 2035.
But at the beginning of the movie there is no time link initially in 2022. The people from the future appear to the people in the present by jumping through a time portal in the middle of a soccer game. I thought they needed a time link? Did I miss something? I'm not following how the initial jump was made given the film's explanation of how the time link works.
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If I understand this correctly, you're asking how they arrived in 2022 without a "receiver" time travel device.
The answer is: They don't need this.
Much like when they are sent to the future, they do not arrive at a "landing pad" - it's just a set of pre-programmed coordinates, set up by the "sender". To explain further, there are no "receiver" devices, only "sender" devices.
The device in the future is set up in a base in the middle of the ocean. The team from 2022 was supposed to be sent to Miami Beach (which failed due to a system error, throwing off the coordinates). If they were supposed to arrive at some kind of pre-built device, they would arrive in the middle of the ocean, which be a big issue for deployment.
So, what happened is:
- Time travel was invented in 2048, and a team was sent to the past. They set the location via coordinates, to the soccer games because they knew a lot of people would be watching.
- The team sent back consisted of scientists, primarily, that would be able to build another time travel device, to send people to the future, from 2022.
- Drafted troops would then be sent to coordinates set by the deployment team, from 2022.
There is never any requirement for the coordinates to be "preset", or any kind of "receiver" pad for time travel to work.
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