Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by theGnuMe on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:00PM
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I like this concept. Is there any sci-fi based on this premise?
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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by jspank on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:53PM
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Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimensional person and dying at the other end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Fi...
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by imsaw on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:01PM
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Interesting concept. I wonder if it's compared with spatial 3D space, then how large would the 4th dimension of time be if it were to fit the timeline of a human lifespan
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by kelseyfrog on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:55PM
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A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it.
It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by skinner_ on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:00PM
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...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by __MatrixMan__ on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:05PM
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Greg Egan - A Clockwork Rocket (book 1 of the Orthogonal trilogoy, all three of which I recommend)
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by myth_drannon on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:10PM
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Aliens in the movie Arrival perceive time in circular fashion, basically live in future and past.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by andsoitis on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:22PM
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And the movie is based on Ted Chiang’s novella, "Story of Your Life"
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by MayeulC on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:45PM
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Just saying, this is a pretty big spoiler.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by idleproc on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:19PM
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Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by gpuhacker on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:35PM
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Surely reminds me of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where Harry is saved by himself as he at some point in the future travels back in time to save himself.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by lupire on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:52AM
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but yeah.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by e12e on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:46PM
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The Nolan film "Tenet" is based entirely around the idea of reversible causality.
Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I...
by photochemsyn on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:32PM
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The 'Dirac Beep' in this short novella (1973):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time
Also, the concept of causality itself is a kind of underlying theme in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Causal Angel" (2014) (3rd of a series).