book of the month club: the time traveler’s wife
i’m a bit late to the party on this one, since my only other two book-reading buddies have already read it, but it was per their recommendation that i even bothered to pick it up.
first of all, the time traveler’s wife is the best romance story ever. it was probably one of the best of any kind of stories that i’ve read, although to be fair, i usually read those fiction-thrillers they sell at the airport by crichton or rollins or grisham. the premise sounds complicated: clare first meets henry when she’s 6 and he’s 36, when they get married clare is 23 and henry is 31. once you get into it though, it all makes sense, that is if you subscribe to the single-timeline theory of time travel, and believe in absolute fate, where you can’t ever change anything even if you know the future, because every attempt to change the future has already been attempted and resulted in a predetermined outcome. while i prefer the multi-timeline theories of time travel, the time traveling in this book stays nice and tighty, and i spent my time enjoying the story and not contemplating time travel theory.
the biggest take-away for me from this book was just how precious and how fleeting time is. the story really made me reflect on how much i take my love and youth for granted. yeh, yeh, sounds sappy, but that’s what a good book will do to you. they’re making a big-screen adaptation that will come out later this year with eric bana as henry and rachel mcadams as clare. i’m skeptical that they’ll be able to capture the awesomeness of the book, but i’ll be there opening night to find out.
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Geoffrey Thomas exploring how time works
A romance science fiction time travel stories describing the energy f9orces and motion distorting space and time catalyst travelling back to the past is always missing. The great scientific thinker and hero of the scientific world Albert Einstein said clocks slow down when we approach the maximum speed of light but only from that point of view.
With so much G-force energy at 300,000kmph seems ideal to distort space description travelling back to the past.
Some of us believe time comes to a stop and when we accede light speed start travelling back. So what does the environment’s point of view see us when we see the environment’s time stopped when at the maximum speed of light?
I’ve been exploring in my blog called (http://) time travel and parallel universe theories (.blogspot.com/) how we observe the environment’s time passes when we are at maximum speed of light while the environment we’re observing us speeded time from it’s point of view.
We observe the hour and minute hands of clocks frozen in time at any given moment just as if we would see if we were at the maximum speed of light observing the environment. Despite “us” seeing the environment frozen in time at the maximum speed of light from “the environment’s point of view” would see us speeded up if we were at the maximum speed of light.
Something tells us despite the fact the hour and minute hands appear to be frozen in time at any given moment they’re not. It appears the hands are moving though time us observing stopped in time at the same time.
geoffrey thomas is my hero.