Time Travel 0
I am fascinated by time travel. At its heart, time travel is about breaking the rule of commitment – normally, once you do something, you have committed the act and can’t undo it. (You can sometimes...
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In this and future time travel posts, I’m going to “think out loud” (e.g. do exactly what I always do on this blog) about some possible ways in which time travel might work, were it possible, and...
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The mutable scenario is nice because it neatly sidesteps most paradoxes. Time CAN change, in this scenario, and the resulting timeline is {past previous to the change} + {changed timeline that...
View ArticleDigitize Me
In the vein of thinking about technology and how it can improve our lives, I wanted to talk about “things that would be awesome to have as a digital in-eye head’s up display.” Other than a clock with...
View ArticleTeleportation 3
I wanted to conclude my series on Teleportation before moving on to discussions of Identity, since the Identity problem (am I the same entity before and after the teleport?) is most strongly felt in...
View ArticleAnathem
I finished Neal Stephenson’s Anathem last night. It was a pretty incredible book – I enjoyed it, and it covered tons of physics AND philosophy AND it was well-written and well-composited. I would...
View ArticleFreecast
I didn’t bring up the mode of teleporting where people just do it, from anywhere to anywhere, without any specific technology, because I don’t think it’s particularly likely. However, it does make an...
View ArticleReview: Starcraft 2
I’ve talked previously about Starcraft 2, how I felt about receiving it on release day and how I reacted to two issues of choice in the single-player game, but I haven’t really reviewed it properly, so...
View ArticleReview: Vacuum Diagrams
When I made trips up and down the length of California, to visit home in Santa Cruz area while I went to school in Los Angeles area, I would sometimes stop at a highway convenience exit for food,...
View ArticleFaster than Light
I’ve written at length about teleportation and how it might be achieved (along with the virtues and perils of those forms of travel), but since I just finished rereading Dune, with instantaneous...
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