Meaningful Changes
July 7, 2011 in Blogs
Let’s start today by introducing A Sound of Thunder part 12: meaningful, the latest in the Examiner temporal anomalies series. At least one reader has expressed the opinion that I have sufficiently eviscerated the film and should move to the next, but I think this article illumines one of the serious problems that often arise in shoddy thinking about time travel. That is, why should some changes to history be considered “meaningful” and others not, and more importantly how can the world itself tell the difference?
The car returned today, perhaps not fully functional but at least sufficiently functional for our purposes. Meanwhile, Baxter’s car apparently decided to quit yesterday, and he’s been scrambling for transportation we were not able to provide; we’ll see where that leads. There is no rehearsal tonight, because the man who has the keys to the practice hall also has company from out of town; he was talking about practice tomorrow night, but the complications at the moment are formidable, and I do not see it happening.
I read three pieces from Eric Ashley since I last posted. Practise Bits: Academe is an assault on the stronghold of Yale University, in another universe. Practise Bits: Ark takes some descriptive liberties with the antediluvian era, but finds an interesting way to involve a verser into a moment in history. Practise Bits: Grit is a western setting in which the central character is not the interdimensional traveler, but is rather the lady to whom said traveler proposes.
Let me go do something meaningful on the forums.
–M. J. Young