Time, Periodicity, Durations and Experience
Exactly 55 Years, 10 Months
MAY 27, 2009 Fifty-five years and ten months. That’s precisely how long the Korean Armistice lasted. Today, Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s insanely fearless leader, declared that his country is abandoning the armistice agreement [...]
Back From Whence I Went
MAY 20, 2009 [...] A series of tiny windows (1 cm in diameter) are strategically positioned around the craft in order to optimise outside viewing upon ‘arrival’ at the destination frame. The mini-windows are precisely-ground polycarbonate lenses. Since it’s impossible to see through these dim, obtusely-focused portals with the human eye, CCD cameras are interfaced in a holographically-compatible array which provides excellent views of one’s ‘future’ surroundings – but only though a 2D display monitor or virtual reality helmet. [...]
What the… ?
MAY 18, 2009 A beam of light travels from Point A to Point B. You, a scientist, measure its rate of progress on that journey and aren’t surprised to find that it agrees precisely with the universal standard, just as it did countless times before. But you verify it anyway because you’re diligent – and there’s always that slim but tantalising chance that you might find a cool anomaly. And then it happens. [...]
temporalysis
MAY 17, 2009 (poem – mood: an excruciating experience of time)
The Advent of Monolithic Man
MAY 13, 2009 The curious case of Albert Einstein, TIME’s “Man of the 20th Century”.
