A spacious office leads to an analogy where a section of time goes missing, or a time stasis is set up.
Author: Paul Wandason
Paul is a time travel enthusiast and writes for time2timetravel.com as Paul Wandason. As a father of two growing daughters, Paul’s eager to avoid the grandfather paradox and has no intention of annoying any of his future grandchildren. If he had any free time he’d probably fill it by looking at the stars and other wonders of the universe. And if he had a time machine he’d probably hide it from his grandchildren.
Review: Return to Sender by Fred H. Holmes
Return to Sender by Fred H. Holmes is a time travel novel with a solid method of time travel and a plot which is firmly rooted in historical accuracy. Carleton goes back in time to change key moments in the American Civil War to set America back on track. But there are problems…
Que sera sera. Is Destiny really Fixed?
Darth Vader and Doris Day would make a good couple – they both believe the future is fixed. If that’s the case, the need for time travel may be under question. What do we expect from time travel if our destiny is fixed and the past cannot be changed?
April becomes shorter
I don’t know what to say. Time dilation from the speed of my train? Some sort of marketing gimmick? A Dutch national conspiracy, or more proof of the connection between Holland and time travel?
Time travel warning
Cartoon with a warning for time travellers – take note!
Giraffe in the hole
I admittedly don’t know the hows or whys, but have you ever thought of what would happen if a giraffe fell into a black hole?
Time lines
One of the arguments used against the possibility of time travel is that there are no firm or proven solutions given the problems of paradoxes.
In this post I postulate against one of the commonly used get-out-clauses for the grandfather paradox…multiple time lines. Actually, the same holds true for multiple universes too.
Time travel through genetic projection
Having children arguably takes you back to your own childhood…if not they make you feel your own age. Here I present a corollary; children are not just the future – they are our genetic projections into it!
Temporal (re)assignment
Cartoon strip highlighting the problem of temporal paradoxes.
Review: Trapped in Time by Clay Brandenburg
Trapped in Time by Clay Brandenburg is more of a romance set in World War 2 than a science fiction novel…but it does have an element of time travel! No time travel…no romance!
Review: Syncing Forward by W. Lawrence
Syncing Forward is a time travel novel which describes the human element of the experience. This is set against a backdrop of a world which is becoming increasingly technologically advanced…which is not necessarily for its own good.
It is one of the novels which I’m sure will stay with me for a long time; it touches me most as a protective father of 2 young daughters but also as someone who’s nervous of all things medical. And naturally, as a time travel fan!
Time creation from angular momentum
Can the laws of conservation of angular momentum be manipulated such that we can create time? Here’s a graphic from www.xkcd.com which suggests so!
Re-Do: A time travel comedy sitcom.
Re-Do is a TV comedy sitcom about friends, beer, and time travel. Josh is a bit of a loser and downloads a time travel app so he can back in time and re-do his past mistakes. But there are spanners in the works. Interested in seeing more?
That syncing feeling
Syncing Forward is a powerful novel and it’s really touching me. I’m fearful of medical things and biology and as a protective husband and father of two young daughters all of my sensitivities are getting mashed through the grinder. Time travel? Make it horror…
Time travel in nature
Sceptics of time travel might argue that it’s an abomination of the natural laws that are already in place. But time travel does appear in nature…
Review: The Paradox War by CJ Moseley
The Paradox War is a mind blowing novel. It’s not a belch which blows away the cobwebs, but an invigorating blast of adrenalised oxygen which forms intricate cranial webs of connections between neurons igniting and firing at Will to weave a web so tangled that Will Shakespeare himself would have run a mile if asked to try to get this down as a blockbuster play.
Anti gravity train
The Dutch train service continues to amaze me! Today we have the anti gravity train – the sign on the Dutch train window shows objects flying free from the pull of gravity!
Review: The Chronothon by Nathan Van Coops
Nathan Van Coops masterfully creates a universe with scientifically viable time travel in The Chronothon. Brilliantly written with a splash of humour!
Thrust into a deadly race across the ages, Ben becomes an unwilling pawn in the machinations of forces seeking to destroy parallel universes. Time travelers, a dog, an alien and an organism gun (yes, that’s spelled correctly…) play intelligently thought out roles in a “chronothon”.
Tea with a dinosaur
Perhaps we don’t understand or know about history as much as we think we do!
Not enough time
Whatever I do, I always seem to have too little time to do it in. Even if it’s simply getting out of the house in the morning. I think I have an excuse, but this guy…?
Year: A name or a number?
When we look at other units of time, there are a whole mix of names and counting systems. So is assigning a number to a year the best methodology for defining or specifying a year?
Much as I dislike astrology and have no time for it, I like the Chinese way of naming the year (as we do with days and months) instead of numbering them…
Time travel mug shot
My work group produced this mug with a tagline which is rather fitting for a time travel fan. It even has a time travel accelerator stick in the form of chalk to allow me to go back in time! Shame I’m not so keen on coffee!
January: a time to look forward or backward?
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus. Janus has two faces – one which faces forwards and the other faces behind. In January we look forward to the new year, but also take time to look back over the year that has been. In a platonic kind of a way, would our memories and desires be selective?
Does time have a personality?
Old Father Time – a personification of time. But would you say he has a personality? A jovial old fellow who delights in our brief moments in time, or a grumpy old codger who’s seen and experienced it all before? I this recent experience of mine might show that he has a sense of humour!
The height of time dilation
The office move at work means a change in height for many departments. Will the time dilation as defined by GR be noticeable? Time will tell!
A decision back in time
Do we have a free will when we make a decision with time travel? Is the past fixed, and the future a set fate or destiny? The linear model of time doesn’t account that knowledge of the future affects the past, when even logic would suggest that is so. Alternative (multidimensional) models, such as those given by quantum mechanics would perform better. The future is yours. So is your history!
Mental time travel with imagination
I’ve had a double helping of mental time travel recently – I found a school exercise book from when I was about 10 years old, and I’d written a couple of short stories about clocks. Young children often have wild imagination, and I think that this should be nurtured – after all, the world is built on the backbone of imagination!
Review: Somewhere in Time (book)
Somewhere in Time (Richard Matheson) describes the journey back in time by Richard Collier who seeks to win the love of Elise McKenna – a famous actress whose photo he saw in a hotel. The time travel method used is self hypnosis, similar to that used in Time and Again by Jack Finney. The novel brings the question of predestiny and fate to the fore, with some interesting ontological paradoxes thrown into the mix.
Time Travel: People Finally "Catch Up" With Machines
Time travel is not just about theory and science fiction stories anymore. It has been “out there” for at least 60 years and there are several “smoking guns”, indicative of people actually time traveling!
If there are people time traveling out there via machine, does that mean that people might also be able to time travel “on foot”? Every once in a while the thought crosses someone’s mind about being able to time travel through thought or intention. People already time travel in the astral or dream state, but what about physical time travel in the waking state? Enter “quantum jumping”.
The Dutch Masters of Time
Holland. Well known for being flat, tulips, clogs, windmills and bicycles. Now add hideous table clothes and a strange idea of the English calendar!
Time traveling dinosaurs
I don’t know how, who, what or why, but somehow these time traveling dinosaurs turned up at home…
Temporal shifters
Nature is driven out to make way for these temporally displaced humans until it is safe, peaceful and clean again. And I think I count myself amongst those persecuted creatures. My natural aversion to time shifters makes me wonder. Would I be welcoming to a true time traveler if ever I should meet one? I hope so, but maybe evidence is pointing otherwise 🙁
The Temporal Jester
One of the Goodreads time travel group moderators commissioned an artist to draw The Temporal Jester. Here it is!
My trouble with ebooks
I must admit I’ve never even held an e-reader, but I guess at heart I’m just an old fashioned tree chopping dinosaur who prefers paperbacks over ebooks! I tried reading An0ma1y by C. J. Moseley in ebook format. It has a fantastic first chapter with an incredible amount of thought behind it, but I’m having troubles reading in electronic format.
In the zone
Another conversation with my daughter lead to the revelation of the paradoxical nature when telling the time.
An An0ma1y Somewhere in Time
So what do I read first? Somewhere in Time: a rehashed novel, poorly written but with a good plot and a lively Goodreads discussion, or An0ma1y: a cracker of a novel with promises of well researched time travel intricacies but on a medium which will drive me nuts?