[He appreciates the explanation, even if most of it is only an overview and more in-depth explanations would require more background information than Newt has on the subject. Not that he hasn't taken a few physics classes himself! But that is enough to know didn't really know much about this topic at all. He has only scratched the surface.]
Oh, hey, if you're looking for the thing with the [figuratively or literally. He points to the desk he and Hermann just walked past.] Big Red Button, it's over there.
B-but wait. Okay, now, I GET what you're saying, that linking dimensions without a time-travel element means it's a crap-shoot where we get dropped off at and it's just as likely--no, Hermann, don't--it's MORE likely that we get unloaded into a time either before or after we left--posssibly distantly so! NOT THAT I HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST THEM, but I don't really want to end up with dinosaurs. So, yeah, the time thing is next. But that's not really my issue here.
My ISSUE is--how are we going to KNOW? Even if the rat safely goes through the portal and comes back without being eaten by a raptor or a Morlock, how are we going to know what time it was there? Because wouldn't it be fairly safe to assume that your math requires knowing the variable or some shit of where these two dimensions intersect to calculate how to move them along the...axis? [Hey, theory bothers him. Newt likes more concrete things. Sorry he's in here challenging your mathematics. It's what he does. He requires explanations and information and experience tells him this is one way to get that, by questioning like the asshole he is.] And 75 million years ago didn't exactly have newspapers.
no subject
Oh, hey, if you're looking for the thing with the [figuratively or literally. He points to the desk he and Hermann just walked past.] Big Red Button, it's over there.
B-but wait. Okay, now, I GET what you're saying, that linking dimensions without a time-travel element means it's a crap-shoot where we get dropped off at and it's just as likely--no, Hermann, don't--it's MORE likely that we get unloaded into a time either before or after we left--posssibly distantly so! NOT THAT I HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST THEM, but I don't really want to end up with dinosaurs. So, yeah, the time thing is next. But that's not really my issue here.
My ISSUE is--how are we going to KNOW? Even if the rat safely goes through the portal and comes back without being eaten by a raptor or a Morlock, how are we going to know what time it was there? Because wouldn't it be fairly safe to assume that your math requires knowing the variable or some shit of where these two dimensions intersect to calculate how to move them along the...axis? [Hey, theory bothers him. Newt likes more concrete things. Sorry he's in here challenging your mathematics. It's what he does. He requires explanations and information and experience tells him this is one way to get that, by questioning like the asshole he is.] And 75 million years ago didn't exactly have newspapers.