Time Travel FAQs Part 1: Folding Time
… Q: A popular technique for time travel that I often hear discussed is “folding time”. How does folding time help to travel through time?
A: Well, it’s a simple as this: Imagine time is this piece of paper (Rob holds a piece of paper). Now imagine we could do this (Rob bends the paper to touch in a couple of places) so we could pass from one point in time to another. Well time travel is not at all like that. It’s more like if I did that paper bending thing, except with time instead of paper. Paper is more like paper than it is like time, it’s just serving as a physical analogue in this case. Like, I guess you could create similes about how paper is like time, but why bother?…
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Television Blanding
The Correctness came across this article bemoaning the state of cable television. Since television is close to our heart, and we fully agree with everything the article says, we’re linking here for your pleasure. Also, there’s a delicious amount of irony in the fact that rather than generate new content on this subject, we’re simply “re-broadcasting”. The Correctness misses The Learning Channel very much....