A bit of time travel theory

All right, I know that time travel is confusing for a lot of people. Hell, I'm a Time Lord with a doctorate in chronodisplacement theory, and it still gives me headaches. I can, however, help with two simple guidelines. 1: History can be changed. 2: Your own personal timeline cannot be changed. Those are more or less the two main rules of time travel. Now, people ask me all the time, why not just stop Hitler, or why not just stop whoever the big bad guy in their universe is. It's not that simple... read more

Time Travel and the Art of Theorizing               The idea of travelling backwards in time to relive old memories, fix mistakes, or visit new time periods has always been appealing in art simply for its sheer impossibility.   From Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to more modern science fiction writers, authors have been intrigued with the idea of time travel as a plot device for many years.   Because time travel...

So, um, I've been reading rather a lot of cleolinda lately --- particularly Movies in Fifteen Minutes, True Blood recaps, chapter-by-chapter commentaries on the Twilight books; not so much her actual journal entries --- and, uh, this episode was begging to be mocked even more than every episode of Charmed in the history of ever and, see, it's been way too long since I've written anything other than a list or a first sentence or an O HAI THIS WAS MY DAY entry and, well, I have a lot of...

This is actually a response to an idea posted on paire_love, but since my reply is among my better theories, I'm copying it here. The initial post is copied for ease of reference - hope virtual_insomnia won't mind! You can find the entire thread here vitural_insomnia wrote in paire_love: Spoilers for who Claire's daddy is, just in case there's anyone who doesn't know yet. So, you know how people have been sort of jokingly saying that maybe Peter was adopted or switched at birth or something...

I first read this book in high school sci-fi class, so it would around the 1987-88 area. I can remember the book concentrating on the main character going off to fight a war that he signed on for with a "I have nothing else to live for" attitude. This comes up at all because the author really concentrates on the Einstein theory that light speed travel (or close to light speed travel), will cause people back home to continue aging while you stay the same. The author drives the idea home by having...

Title: The Evolution Theory, Part I: Process of Elimination Author: Pennilane ( ecphrastic ) Pairing(s): Zoro/Sanji Rating: PG-13 Date posted: 2006. 06. 04 Author's Notes: I'll just post the first part here and link to the second part, which in turn is linked to the third. Part II: [Survival of the Fittest] It took him nineteen years to tap his way free of the little world he inhabited, an eggplant out of an eggshell leaving tiny wet footprints behind. For nineteen years...