tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post5676734083657864084..comments2024-02-11T15:29:31.409-05:00Comments on Richard's Pretension: The Day after YesterdayRichard Bellushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-11247729919166855592015-08-12T11:12:41.308-04:002015-08-12T11:12:41.308-04:00Re: getting past WW1, the disposition of the Ottom...Re: getting past WW1, the disposition of the Ottoman Empire by the WW1 Allies is still troubling us the most, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that set up Palestine for future conflict to the setting of national boundaries of the Middle East that suited colonial powers rather than locals. But lingering issues are elsewhere too; arguably Ukrainian boundary issues date to 1918 and Brest-Litovsk. Strategic or tactical decisions that make sense at the moment so often have unintended long-term consequences. <br /><br />Perhaps both futures exist until you collapse the wave function by sending the IRS a check. Schrödinger's tax? <br />Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-90478377886371034702015-08-12T10:43:19.567-04:002015-08-12T10:43:19.567-04:00 Good luck with the SF time travel tale. They have... Good luck with the SF time travel tale. They have a way of twisting into knots as in “The Terminator” franchise. In the granddaddy of the genre, HG Wells bypassed causality questions by jumping far into the future. I’ve done only one time travel short story (“Living in Clovis”) but bypassed obvious paradoxes by jumping far back to an extinct culture. Multiverses are one way out of the paradoxes. Heinlein in his later novels rescued his earlier ones, which history had overtaken, by committing whole hog to multiple parallel timelines – as in, “Well, that’s the way it happened in that timeline over there.” His final novel “To Sail beyond the Sunset,” which plainly was written with his own approaching sunset in mind, formulates his multiverse vision neatly; it also is a relic of more easygoing 70s/80s sexuality, but that is another topic. I hope to get a peek at what you conjure up.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-57229845359675430312015-08-12T10:30:51.448-04:002015-08-12T10:30:51.448-04:00I was curious about what you meant by we are still...I was curious about what you meant by we are still not past WWI yet. Thinking about time lines and that sort of thing does make the head spin. It seems we have different roads to take, but maybe that's an illusion. <br /><br />I guess I could decide to not pay my taxes this year, and see how that road plays out, but is that just an illusion of the future. Granted at some point in time, I'll probably get a letter from the IRS saying I owe taxes and there's penalties, etc. But when I get that letter, it will be in the present, and I'd have to deal with the consequences then. It's hard to figure when we always have to live in the present. So I don't know. It's a fun theme to play with in the SF realm. I'll have to check out the movie. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-56832571837864764292015-08-12T00:18:54.195-04:002015-08-12T00:18:54.195-04:00I haven't heard of "Time Lapse", but...I haven't heard of "Time Lapse", but yeah we just watched that "Twilight Zone" episode a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen it in years and forgotten how it all turns out.<br /><br />I'm working on a science fiction story dealing with time travel and ability to change events in the past and the future. I had to figure out early on if I wanted to use the fixed future (destiny) concept or not. I decided against it and went for the multiple future/reality concept. I'm hoping the final result isn't nearly as confusing at the outline is starting to look. :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.com