What if time didn’t move in a straight line in a single thermodynamically bound direction of increasing entropy, but bounced around just like rays of light?
Tag: time travel
Shoes for Work – and Time Travel!
Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhikers’Guide to the Galaxy” declares that there’s a lot to be said about a hitch hiker who still has his towel with him. I suggest that the time traveler’s equivalent is their pair of shoes.
Short time travel stories
I’ve had a go at writing some time travel stories of my own… Hope you enjoy them!
A tortoise, a camel, a giraffe and time travel
A tortoise, a camel and a giraffe. It’s not the start of a joke – could it be the start of time travel?
A Taste of Yesterday Today
Sweet smelling roses and a little taste of yesterday today. Will time travel get us into a sticky mess?
How to move a time machine
A time machine needs to move itself in time as well as its inhabitants because otherwise it would be a portal. But how does it do that without bootstrapping?
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!
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”.
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”.
A game of patience
Patience isn’t something for time travellers. As time travellers we don’t want to wait for a moment or an event … More
Dancing back in time
If you’ve been following my blog (under “Timely Thoughts”) you’ll be aware that I have a couple of young daughters … More
Time travel train: moment of proof!
So here it is! All of my seemingly endless journeys and musings about time travel on my daily train commute … More
Is time travel really impossible?
Maybe some don’t dare to believe that time travel is possible, but this view is changing! The understanding of the science behind time travel is improving
What is the role of the speed of light in time travel?
You’ve probably found that there are many references to the speed of light when reading about time travel. This brief … More
What is time travel?
There are many definitions of time travel but most compare travelling through time with travelling in space. I suppose this … More