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qntm's stuff. Also "This is how you lose the time war" is both smart with the world building, and challenging in the good way with the prose.
by SSLy 2y ago
qntm's stuff. Also "This is how you lose the time war" is both smart with the world building, and challenging in the good way with the prose.
- Vecr 2y agoIs that anywhere close to the Quantum Thief series in research quality/accuracy? I've read physicists who say they can't get time travel to work even in fiction, it's just that incompatible with everything else.
- SSLy 2y agoIt's implicitly about looping and diverging multi-multiverses. Not hardcore one-casualty-stream-only time travel.
- Vecr 2y agoYeah, that's how you have to do it, but the main issues are 1) what do you care about, which actually surprisingly mostly boils down to how you calculate probabilities in multiverse situations and 2) how the hell do you find anything? Sure, you somehow jump to a different universe, but I can't think of a physics based reason why you'd be able to 1) get back to your original universe and 2) find any other one you jumped to previously ever again.
- SSLy 2y agoI'd still at least try it. Sci Fi stuff in it is part of the charm, not the point. Maybe that's non-Stephensonian, I guess.