1 Long Tom: A blue box? Be ye addled?! How be this helpin' us be travellin' through time?
1 Ponsonby: Look inside.
2 {Long Tom looks inside}
3 Long Tom: This be manipulatin' space, not time!
3 Ponsonby: Space and time are fundamentally inter-related.
4 Long Tom: Arrrr! Aye. I always be forgettin' that.

Of course pirates are somewhat familiar with many of the concepts of advanced physics.

Why else would they make their enemies walk the Planck?

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2020-08-30 Rerun commentary: In order not to Bohr their enemies with predictable torture methods, some pirates prefer to use Dirac.