tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post2305698642384095520..comments2023-08-14T10:44:59.007-04:00Comments on Novel Spaces: Time Travel WritingKeVin K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14792797517571690942noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-66801441036711037022011-07-13T11:54:15.086-04:002011-07-13T11:54:15.086-04:00Time travel is theoretically possible by means of ...Time travel is <i>theoretically</i> possible by means of an <a title="See Wikipedia entry..." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Rosen_Bridge" rel="nofollow">Einstein-Rosen bridge</a> (or wormhole) through space-time.<br /><br />There are many time-travelling adventures in science fiction. Among my favourites are: <i>The Light of Other Days</i> by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter; and <i>Fallen Dragon</i> by Peter F Hamilton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-12795822214603315802011-07-13T08:50:45.859-04:002011-07-13T08:50:45.859-04:00My favorite time travel book has always been Orion...My favorite time travel book has always been Orion by Ben Bova. The way he handles time travel in that one is pretty mind-bending. Not to mention that it's a rousing action/adventure.Tom Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451129317759266295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-47378850610215936412011-07-12T22:46:03.869-04:002011-07-12T22:46:03.869-04:00The two problems with time travel I've never s...The two problems with time travel I've never seen anyone deal with (though perhaps someone has and I just don't know about it) are:<br />1. If Einstein and Hawking have it right, very second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers)long. You're going to need the energy equivalent of pushing whatever mass you're sending 300,000 kilometers for every second you travel. And logically the perception of the traveler the experience would be of traveling every one of those kilometers. (Imagine an eighteen-million-mile road trip for every minute of time travel.)<br />2. There's no evident, known, or suspected correlation between time and gravity. (The time dilation effect at the event horizon of a black hole has to do with acceleration.) So lets say the energy problem is solved and the time time travelers have something akin to the time dilation effect saving them from spending several hundred lifetimes in each other's company. The decide to jump back 525 years to warn the Tiano to kill all Europeans and burn their boats. (Because, really, a zero-tolerance immigration policy in the 15th century would have saved this hemisphere a lot of grief.) The trip goes perfectly and everyone dies on arrival. Because the earth is moving around the sun and the sun is moving through space. 525 years ago earth was nowhere near where it is now -- our intrepid revisionists would materialize in empty space.<br /> So, with few exceptions (Poul Anderson's <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339/the-man-who-came-early" rel="nofollow">The Man Who Came Early</a> among them) I don't care much for time travel stories.KeVin K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14792797517571690942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-65999847439723772612011-07-12T21:21:16.444-04:002011-07-12T21:21:16.444-04:00I don't seek out time travel stories and won&#...I don't seek out time travel stories and won't attempt to write one. To me that kind of exploration always raises more questions than are answered in the stories and the resolutions seldom seemed logical to me. The ones I love best are the spoofs like Back to the Future.<br /><br />I recall being hooked on Time Tunnel and Star Trek back in the day, but far too many inferior ripoffs have ruined it for me.Liane Spicerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05035607144500219524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594341074652821017.post-12466330814778717032011-07-12T16:50:20.526-04:002011-07-12T16:50:20.526-04:00I actually think I'm not a big fan of time tra...I actually think I'm not a big fan of time travel per se. I liked Bradbury's "Sound of Thunder" pretty well, and a few others. I've written only one story with Time Travel in it, but the travel was incidental. I actually did not like most of the Star Trek time travel episodes. I guess if I could time travel, I'd want to go back to the time when Jesus died. The big question, you know. I'd also love to see Dinosaurs! One time travel show I'll give a try is the new Terra Nova, which is coming this fall.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com