You could superimpose a fifth dimension onto that. I was questioning whether Stapledon explicitly meant anything more than a philosophical perch from which to view the flow of everyday life.
Maybe he’s going to an Athletics game.
Well, I assume that a cosmos with a two-dimensional flow of time would allow an observer to translate from one specific chain of events to another, as easily as we walk from London to Greenwich, for example. That means that events as seen by the observer could have several different past histories, and might affect events in other timelines nearby.
I seem to recall that Stapledon didn’t try to imagine a cosmos with closed timelike loops, apart from the ones which he described as cyclical. So cosmoi which have multiple temporally-displaced instances of the same person (as per the OP) are not specifically described in his imagined universe.
Understood.
It’s been awhile, but I believe that in the Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon series it was necessary to adjust for space-shifting. I may have to read them again.
The same place he’s getting the seats - he’s mugging single guys with tickets.
Yes, in Callahan’s Con that happens. I couldn’t find the exact quote last night, so I didn’t include that one.
It is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
never mind ![]()
Hair today. Gone tomorrow.
I
In Golden Age SF, the time traveller would just hang on to the same ticket and use it over and over. You could conserve it by keeping it in a low-oxygen environment, like the stacks at the British Library.
But nowadays, with electronic tickets, only the first one to arrive would get in - all the rest would be rejected as clones.
Glibby globby glueby nibby nobby newby
I searched for “zombies” and am hoping that was a reference to All You Zombies - Wikipedia !
I already answered most of these questions next Tuesday.
You will didn’t not.
Will to!
Didn’t!
Lets go to Golgotha by Garry Kilworth has a similar idea about tourists going to the crucifixion but with a twist.
He could do it every day and fill the stadium with Johns.