Famous Time-Travelers

    Not surprising.  I know for a fact that Billy Joel is a fellow time-traveler.

RIP Hieronymus Bosch

    Happy Death Day to this dude.  (d. 08/09/1516)  His artwork (see below), plus the fact that we have no record of where and when he was born, is arguably the most compelling evidence we have that time-travel is a reality.

Time-Travel Test

    It worked!!

Quantum Physics Tuesday

Therapy

    This is why I don't go to Therapy.  It would seriously impact my Time-Travel adventures.

Jacob von Hogflume

    I will have had the good fortune, once upon a future time, to meet the late, yet simultaneously early, fellow time-traveler, Jacob von Hogflume.

Future Archaeology

    It's true!  I'm a time-traveler and went forward 10,000 years to check this out.  The archaeologists of the future are totally off-base about this.  They think it our way of preserving a deceased dog's spirit.

    I didn't tell them the real reason.  I like their crackpot theory better than the truth.

Time Travel

    First of all, Time Travel is scientifically possible.  Read Brian Greene's excellent book - The Fabric of The Cosmos (reviewed here).  Even better, watch the 4-part PBS special by the same name if you can find it on YouTube or somewhere.

    Secondly, since I happen to be a Time Traveler (or, as we in the trade call it, "Chrono-Hopping"), the point is moot.

    Third, Bones is a pathologist.  She'd know as much about Quantum Physics as I'd know about Forensics.

    Check, Check, and Mate.

Demotivational Friday

    Makes sense to me.  Imagine the royalties he'd get.

The drawbacks of Time-Travel

    And just try using your cell phone in the Mesozoic Era.

The Zen of Time Travel

    Well what did you expect, man?  The dude came up with Special Relativity.  No sense inventing something, and then not using it yourself.

Eostre Trip

    We took the day off to do some time-traveling.  Headed back to ancient Egypt to do some celebrating of Eostre the original way, before Christianity hijacked it and gave it their spin.

    Had a nice time with the Thebans, although the weather sucked.  Prayed that the earth would renew itself this year - no small matter in a land where life and death depend on the Nile.  Got the assurance from Isis that all would be well.  Ate some figs (yuck) and olives (double yuck), then called it a day.  Told the Thebans we'd see them later - about 46 centuries hence.

Time-Traveling Drabble



    One last reminder that the fourth, and last, part of Brian Greene's  "The Fabric of the Cosmos" airs tonight on PBS's Nova show.  Here in Phoenix, it's on from 9:00 to 10:00.

    Tonight's show deals with Multiverses.  Time-Travel was dealt with in Part 2.  As you can see, Drabble is a fellow chrono-hopper.  Well, at least he can send messages from one Time-Space coordinate to another.

Weekend Chrono-Hopping

    I took Friday off and spent an extended weekend 3000 years in the past.  Yes, that's Atlantis you see in the picture, although it wasn't the huge mega-continent you read about in myths.  It was actually a rather small island with a rather large metropolis, just off the Atlantic coast of Spain.

     I worshipped in an oak grove with the local druids.  Gave them some "prophecies" that they naturally didn't believe.  It doesn't really matter; all the records of my predictions are going to get lost in the deluge.

    Ate some local cuisine - hearty but spiceless.  Chit-chatted with the Beaker people.  Enjoyed a good night's sleep without air-conditioning.  Then came back to the heat and humidity this afternoon.

    All in all a lovely bit of time-jumping.  I might do it again next weekend.

Saving myself

    Yeah, I pulled this same stunt too.  My mom and dad probably still would've gotten married, but I didn't want to take the chance of being zapped into non-existence via an alternate timeline.

75th Middle East Peace Festival

   Well, not really.  You can go back in time and you can go forward in time.  And of course, you can dimension-hop, although that's technically independent of time-travel.

    As for me, I'm popping forward 150 years tonight to attend the 75th Middle East Peace Festival.  For those of you who can't chrono-hop, about 50 years from your 'now', it finally dawns on all the countries in the Middle East that they are screwing each other and themselves with their constant fighting.  Turkey leaves the EEC to join with Israel and a host of Arab nations in an economic and cultural alliance.

    The site of the annual Middle East Peace Festival rotates of course.  And in 2161, it is was will be held in Istanbul.  The Sunnis are bringing the food; and the Shiites are supplying the entertainment.  The Israelis are doing the fireworks, and the Turks taking care of the hospitality.  The Kurds are in charge of the decorations; the Bahais will lead the opening and closing prayers.

    It will be was is a blast!  Come join us.

It doesn't will confused me.

Using ambiguous tenses is only confusing to those who haven't yet mastered the art of Time Travel.

December Vacation

It's been a busy and successful year where I work. As with a lot of people in our Tech Services Dept, I face the end of the year with a poopload of vacation days and a need to use 'em or lose 'em. To accomplish this, I am off quite a bit in the near future. In fact, I only work two more days this month. . I haven't had many chances to time- and dimension-travel for a while, so I think I'll go hiking with my buds Xthnrr and Gnmmkq, under the dual suns on the planet Delvinium-25 (see above) and travel back 3,000 years or so for the Winter Solstice celebration at (what you folks call) Stonehenge. . Or go Christmas shopping. Which seems rather mundane, but would keep peace in the family.

The world in 2050

I'm a time-traveler. I've been there. This is pretty much as it will happen. Except for China. They don't really invent Dimension-Hopping by 2050.

Well d'uh, Steve

Stephen Hawking, heir apparent to the niche Carl Sagan used to occupy, declared this week that - not only is time-travel consistent with the laws of physics - but also that he can think of three ways that it might be accomplished. You can read the MSNBC article about it here. . Am I supposed to be impressed? I've been time- and dimension-traveling for... well, for many indeterminable eons. It's hard to determine/describe lengths of time when you're a chrono-hopper. . Alternatively, Hawking could've just asked his neighborhood cow. . One last thing, Steve. You seem to dismiss time-travel to the past because of the cause-effect conundrum. For instance, that it's impossible because you could conceivably go back and kill your mother before you were born. . How silly. The fact that you are currently here, in the present (whatever that means), demonstrates that your little "impossible situation" doesn't/didn't/won't ever occur. I don't think the physics of time-travel gives a hoot about some hypothetical chrono-situational anomaly.