Time travel

[rosalinanarnen]

No school today. So I actually had time to work on a story I am writing. Discovered that time-travel can turn utterly insane, unless, I suppose you already posses enough insanity to be a theoretical physicist or a philosopher. How I came to discover this is so: since I was writing science fiction I thought I might as well do it properly and read up

Comments

[einsamkeit_13]

I'm not a theoretical physicist, so I don't think I'm could give suggestions on what to read. (: But if you want to have one more source of inspiration, you should watch 'Donnie Darko' movie.

[rosalinanarnen]

Actually, a very good idea. I will rewatch it. Thanks.

[rhetoretician]

The best SF story on time travel I ever read is David Gerrold's novel, The Man Who Folded Himself. The internal logic of the travel is impeccable, and the results are mind-blowing and heartbreaking.

Of course The Time Traveler's Wife conveys the strangeness of out-of-sequence sequences, and is also a tear-jerker.

On the theoretical level, Stephen Hawking has some concise comments on the matter, either in A Brief History of Time or the sequel, whose name I now forget. Time travel (that's backwards time travel -- forward time travel happens constantly :) ) creates several problems that physics seems to indicate are impossible. One theoretical source I read suggested that moving at a sufficiently high speed, very near a sufficiently high mass, would turn the local "arrow of entropy" sufficiently that one would, at least momentarily, be moving backwards.

[rosalinanarnen]

Thanks for the suggessions. I Started reading Hawking a few days ago.Too bad it isn't a standart school physics textbook, it might actually get kids interested in new developments in physics.