Anyone who ignores an invitation to have a drink with Stephen Hawking[1] has nothing to say that is worth hearing.
1. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...
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#42Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.
Strong agree. Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.
> Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.
There's also Primer, but Stein's gate is better than that movie.
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#43Steins;Gate
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#44Patent application, since abandoned, of his time machine: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060073976A1/en > A method for employing sinusoidal oscillations of electrical bombardment on the surface of one Kerr type singularity in close proximity to a second Kerr type singularity in such a method to take advantage of the Lense-Thirring effect, to simulate the effect of two point masses on nearly radial orbits in a…
I'm not a physicist and this looks legit to me. High quality mumbo jumbo!
As I recall, he did fairly well overall. But there were still some errors in the presentation. He provided several pictures, in 1990s-grade postage-stamp quality, which could cover over a lot of issues. One of them was of him shooting a "laser pointer" in his time machine powered by a black hole, and the beam being visibly quite bent. The low resolution covered over the fact this was kinda obviously one of those strings of little lights wrapped in a tube with enough plausibility to believe if you want to. But if the laser pointer's light is getting "bent" like that, all of the light ought to be getting bent, not just the laser pointer, and you ought to be getting immense visual artifacts due to the fact that your picture is itself being taken with light that is bending like crazy (see stuff like [1]). Not to mention the implied gravity field at such bending rates is beyond anything atomic matter can take. But even if we handwave that away, there really isn't a way to handwave away the fact that if the light from your laser pointer is getting bent, all the light ought to be getting bent, to massive effect on the resulting picture.
Still. Valiant effort. Better than most I've seen. Most of them are basically "Hi, I'm from $INTEGER years in the future and it turns out that you all are exactly right about everything and all the fashionable social concerns of your day/culture/sub-culture are in fact exactly correct! In the future, everybody who didn't (eat vegan / believe in BitCoin / get concerned about the landfill crisis / accept pholostigon theory) is dead because (they where all executed by super ethical governments for the crime of eating animals / died in pauper's prisons / literally buried in garbage / of the great Pholostigon War of 1773)! Ask me anything about how right your current social fashions are!" Not that Titor didn't more than dabble in that himself, though.
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#45How is this so high on the news feed? This is old, and not relevant.
Some people want to increase the unhinged fearmongering over the virus by any means necessary. They’re running out of plausible rumors to do it with so now they’re upvoting end times prophecies instead. Of course that’s the only reason this is being upvoted right now. My question is why aren’t they being shadowbanned for inflaming the hysteria. The astonishing thing is that 99% of these people spent the past ten years aggressively trashing anyone who showed genuine interest in alarming events pointed out by Alex Jones etc, bullying them and rendering them pariahs in their social groups. Now that it’s their turn to be treated this way, their behavior is instead being allowed and encouraged for some reason, and they somehow don’t see the hypocrisy in their pointless cultivating of this panicked conspiracy theorist mindset.
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#47Time travel is like UFOs:
If there are aliens out there, why haven’t we met some by now?
If there are time travellers, why isn’t anybody making accurate predictions?
If rich people exist, why hasn’t one given me a million dollars?
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#48What time travel might look like from the other side [1]. I remember a great short story I read about the first time traveler. They decided the first visit would be the Shakespeare. Shakespeare has no problems accepting that he's being visited by a time traveler, and asks what gifts the traveler brings. The traveler is a bit confused, so Shakespeare explains that the early ones all bring gifts. The traveler has broug…
Any chance you recall the name of the short story? Your link was a fun read, but disappointingly not the story you described!
Looks like it's The Muse by Anthony Burgess (1968). Sorry for the long URL but it's the best confirmation of this I could find. [1]
[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mh9zrji5zfAC&pg=PA185&lpg=...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strong agree. Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.
> Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end. There's also Primer, but Stein's gate is better than that movie.
I wouldn't really call it better, they operate on different scales. Primer is much less bombastic and doggedly grounded to reality, which is really an anomaly in sci-fi media. Failure of the protagonists in Primer does not mean a World War 3 will happen or the planet will be destroyed, the biggest stake in the movie is one of the characters getting shot at their birthday party by an ex.
Personally I find this much more refreshing than the usual the-world-will-collapse scenarios. It's easily one of my favorite films, just because of how different it is than it's ilk, I've yet to find something like it again.
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#50So, in the late 90's I went to a goth convention in New Orleans, where my wife met a time traveller named "Butterfly". I saw her talking to a weird looking guy, and swung by to see if she needed help, but she had that "oh this is going to be a great story" look on her face and kind of shooed me away. Later, she told me he had claimed to be from the future. He made some predictions: - there would be a war in Iraq, but…
What group and month? in case someone out there might have their own copy...