jmohme Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 26 minutes ago, railfancwb said: A recurring theme in science fiction is that parallel universes exist. Supposedly a person “in the know” can travel back and forth. This was the theme in the short story I mentioned earlier. In reality, if alternate universes exist they probably spread like the tines of a leaf rake - nothing parallel there. However, if the altrenate univreses were truly parallel, would they not then be identical? That would make for some truly boring Si Fi. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast had the most unique take on sci-fi time travel that I have read. Anyone read it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 Philip José Farmer's Time's Last Gift was another one I enjoyed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 I also really enjoyed Micheal Crichton's Timeline. I never saw the movie, but I heard bad things about it. I thought the book was very interesting though. I enjoyed the way Crichton told a story. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 Does the theory of alternate universes violate the principle of conservation of matter and energy? Or is the principle consistent within each universe? If it's consistent how do you move between them? Do objects have color in the dark? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 3 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Does the theory of alternate universes violate the principle of conservation of matter and energy? Or is the principle consistent within each universe? If it's consistent how do you move between them? Do objects have color in the dark? Crichton explained a version of the experiment in the link below to prove the multiverse theory, in the book Timeline. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=966.0 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 12 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Does the theory of alternate universes violate the principle of conservation of matter and energy? Or is the principle consistent within each universe? If it's consistent how do you move between them? Do objects have color in the dark? Issac Asimov answered that question in The Gods Themselves. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Spicoli Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 1 hour ago, gwalchmai said: Bullet goes somewhere, kills a butterfly, and eventually changes your past. Or not, and then we're off down another rabbit hole. Time travel is like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls. Watch The Family Guy episode where Stewie goes back in time. All your questions will be answered. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fog Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Tell them Trump's second term was his most successful, than clarify I meant Barron Trump, not his father Donald, who also had a great second term. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 19 hours ago, Eric said: Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast had the most unique take on sci-fi time travel that I have read. Anyone read it? Yes. Good read. Apparently he wrote an alternate second half which hid in his archives until recently. It was published as… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 15 Administrators Share Posted March 15 6 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Yes. Good read. Apparently he wrote an alternate second half which hid in his archives until recently. It was published as… I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the heads-up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 13 hours ago, Eric said: I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the heads-up. I think the original hardback Pankera has a marker in the margin where the two texts diverge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 "Here, I brought you all some lottery tickets. You can thank me later." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Spicoli Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 "Nanoo, nanoo MF'er" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 I think you'd have to introduce dangerous twonky knowledge in order to make stuff like "Nanoo Nanoo" work. "There's gonna be a TV show where the main character says that" is WAY too much contamination to the timeline. Or not, depending on one's opinion of those infernal multiple universes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 “The Haunted Mesa” by Louis L’Amour has aspects of alternate universes with contact points where people can pass between them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Downloaded this from somewhere sometime… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted March 20 Administrators Share Posted March 20 Walk up to them and say, "Come with me if you want to live." An accent might lend the command some credibility. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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