Brief Divergence
March 24, 2011 in Blogs
I keep a few extra articles on my hard drive–most of them unfinished, some of the delayed in publication for various reasons. One of those reasons is that I like to start a new temporal anomalies Examiner series on a new movie on Monday, but since I post two per week and don’t always do an even number of entries on any given film (writing fluff to fill up the extra week is not really profitable) I sometimes have a Thursday to fill with something that is going to be worthwhile and interesting but isn’t part of a present series on a particular movie. For this I sometimes include answers to reader questions, when for example a comment requires more of a response than can be put in a comment, but this time I answered a question that I asked myself: what happens in divergent dimension theory if the time traveler who does not have to go back because he is already there goes back anyway? Thus this week I am posting Temporal theory 101: a problem with divergent dimension theory, actually the seventeenth article in the Temporal Theory 101 batch, not including the two articles addressing reader questions there.
Monday will see the launch of Timeline.
I’m feeling some pressure today, because I have a music rehearsal tonight for the church I’m helping. So I’ve got to rush.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on March 25, 2011
According to Stephen King, that’s a fairly common practice among writers. Write two novels and release one. That way, if he wants to take a year off from writing, he can still release a novel on schedule like the fans expect.