Re:The quest to crystallize time
by ep103 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:33AM
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Sounds like Philip K Dick's take on time. IIRC he had a mental breakdown at one point, and believed this is exactly how time works. That at any moment, you could be walking down the same street in 2000 AD, 4000AD, and 0 AD, and the same stories would be or could be unfolding
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Actually based on a short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang:
Re:The quest to crystallize time
by wavefunction on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:12AM
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Not from what I know. PK Dick towards the end of his life believed himself to be living both in 1974 and as an early Christian named Thomas in the Levant sometime in the first century CE contemporaneously.
It's easy to check:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/
Writers: Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (based on the story "Story of Your Life" written by)
Are you talking about "Time out of Joint"? He wrote a novel about it.
Check out Exegesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick
Pretty far out there though. He sort of went insane.
> and 0 AD
"Zero AD" is not a year, AD (a.k.a. CE) begins with year 1.
Re:The quest to crystallize time
by equalunique on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:16AM
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What you desceibe here is the Philip K Dick book V.A.L.I.S.