The universe is a vast, wondrous and strange place. What would happen if you traveled through it in a straight line forever? Could you return to your starting point? The key lies in understanding the expanding universe. Simple, right? Big Think unpacks it all in this head-spinning article by Ethan Siegel that will have you asking what the original question was. https://flip.it/8r3P1l #Science#Space#Universe#TimeTravel#SpaceExploration
The thing I am most interested in is time travel. I would be real interested in connecting with people on mastodon that have same interests 👌🏾
I tried writing a book last year but lost interest. Need more inspiration 🙏🏿 #TimeTravelAuthors
@Jaden3 Here is another diagram that I find helpful in understanding #TimeTravel re the speed of light in. It depicts #Spacetime intervals. A cone is positioned on 3D axes. The vertical axis is time, two (for simplicity) horizontal axes are space. The narrowest point of the cone is at the origin; the here and now. #WorldLines inside the cone are called time-like. Outside the cone world lines are space-like. Time travel involves going from time-like to space-like world-lines.
@Jaden3#TimeTravel is related to faster-than-light #FTL travel from inside to outside the spacetime interval light cone. It makes be dizzy trying to interpret multiple world lines using this chart 👆🏼, but it can be done. Have fun!
Five stars: A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen (2024) begins with the explosion of a particle accelerator somewhere near San Francisco in the near future. Carter is a technician at Hawke, and although this is our first time through the loop, he knows what to expect. He's been tracking it in notebooks, although the notebooks reset every time but the act of writing it down helps him remember. This time, though, he decides to take a different path, and he runs into Mariana Pinada, setting in motion something that will eventually save the world.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
I found this book recommended somewhere, possibly reddit.com, and reserved it at my local library, but the reservation came through while I'm in the middle of slogging through a long non-fiction book about pirates. But it was due back soon, so I decided I better get my A into G and read it. Can I say how glad I am that I did so? It was a great palate cleanser from the dry (yet not unentertaining) historical work, and I smashed through it in a couple of days.
The format lends itself to a quick read, and it's not an overly-long work. Two time-travelling warriors from opposing sides of a sprawling temporal war draw the attention of each other and begin to spar through deed and plot over centuries, trading missives encoded in reality that begin as mental sparring but soon progress to something else. It's a war story, it's a love story, it's a tangled tale of time travel that turns out to be not so complex as to overshadow the complex interplay between the pair known only as Red and Blue.
The writing is poetic and multi-layered and filled with subtlety, humour and wonder. Concepts that could provide an adequate spine for a whole novel are presented in mere sentences, but you don't mind because the complexity of the ideas washes over you in delicate prose, and a new concept has already been delivered, and it's just as thought-provoking as the first! It's LGBT-affirming, it's surprising and heartfelt and inspiring, and I'll be looking out for works from both of the authors as the year progresses!
Astrophysicist says he's cracked the equation for #TimeTravel
By Sanjana Gajbhiye, 22 Mar 2024
…''[Prof. Ron] Mallett’s theory comes with a significant constraint. “You can send information back, but you can only send it back to the point where you started operating the device.”
In this sense, the #TimeMachine is like a one-way message service to the past. You can’t travel to a point before the machine existed''…
It's very subjective when a #visualnovel suddenly starts getting interesting and gripping. To me, it only happened in chapter 6 in #SteinsGate. Chapter 5 was OK, but before, it was a real slog. I've been playing the game for months on-an-off like a boring relationship you can't end. It's nice that the story finally picked up for me, but why only after 10 hours? I recommend the game, but damn, it took me a minute. #videogames
I already laughed, cried, everything. The game reminds me of "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis that I've finished recently. These #timetravel stories, when well written, can be unpredictable and full of meaningful human connections. And there's way too much that can go wrong 😅
New #Introduction post: Been on Mastodon since 2022, reinventing myself here. #WebSerial writer and #TimeTravel fan. Enjoy writing/reading #Yuri & #SapphicAuthors. Am out there in the gender spectrum. If you know me, you know me.
Formerly hosted with WordPress, looking for a new web location that isn't interested in taking my data for AI. Please let me know if you have any leads.
That will do for now. Thanks for reading, be well all.