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I like this concept. Is there any sci-fi based on this premise?

by theGnuMe 4y ago

myth_drannon 4y ago
Aliens in the movie Arrival perceive time in circular fashion, basically live in future and past.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  And the movie is based on Ted Chiang’s novella, "Story of Your Life"
- MayeulC 4y ago
  Just saying, this is a pretty big spoiler.
- deleted 4y ago
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jspank 4y ago
Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimensional person and dying at the other end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Fi...
- imsaw 4y ago
  Interesting concept. I wonder if it's compared with spatial 3D space, then how large would the 4th dimension of time be if it were to fit the timeline of a human lifespan
  - kelseyfrog 4y ago
    A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it. It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.
    - skinner_ 4y ago
      ...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.
__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
Greg Egan - A Clockwork Rocket (book 1 of the Orthogonal trilogoy, all three of which I recommend)
idleproc 4y ago
Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
gpuhacker 4y ago
Surely reminds me of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where Harry is saved by himself as he at some point in the future travels back in time to save himself.
- lupire 4y ago
  Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but yeah.
e12e 4y ago
The Nolan film "Tenet" is based entirely around the idea of reversible causality.
photochemsyn 4y ago
The 'Dirac Beep' in this short novella (1973): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time Also, the concept of causality itself is a kind of underlying theme in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Causal Angel" (2014) (3rd of a series).

I like this concept. Is there any sci-fi based on this premise?

myth_drannon 4y ago

Aliens in the movie Arrival perceive time in circular fashion, basically live in future and past.

andsoitis 4y ago
And the movie is based on Ted Chiang’s novella, "Story of Your Life"
MayeulC 4y ago
Just saying, this is a pretty big spoiler.
deleted 4y ago
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jspank 4y ago

Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimensional person and dying at the other end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore#Slaughterhouse-Fi...

imsaw 4y ago
Interesting concept. I wonder if it's compared with spatial 3D space, then how large would the 4th dimension of time be if it were to fit the timeline of a human lifespan
- kelseyfrog 4y ago
  A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it. It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.
  - skinner_ 4y ago
    ...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago

Greg Egan - A Clockwork Rocket (book 1 of the Orthogonal trilogoy, all three of which I recommend)

idleproc 4y ago

Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.

gpuhacker 4y ago

Surely reminds me of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where Harry is saved by himself as he at some point in the future travels back in time to save himself.

lupire 4y ago
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but yeah.

e12e 4y ago

The Nolan film "Tenet" is based entirely around the idea of reversible causality.

photochemsyn 4y ago

The 'Dirac Beep' in this short novella (1973): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time Also, the concept of causality itself is a kind of underlying theme in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Causal Angel" (2014) (3rd of a series).