Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Time In Elf Hill

Poul Anderson wrote two classics of time dilation:

Tau Zero
Starfarers

How strange that time dilation occurs in myths:


"'...know that time is strange in Elf Hill. They'd ha' held ye there wi' one nicht o' merrymaking, and when ye came oot again, a hundred years would a' passed here. In the meantime the Middle Worlders would ha' been able to do whate'er 'tis ye noo stand in the way o'."
-Three Hearts And Three Lions, CHAPTER NINE, p. 57.

Irish mythology used time dilation to enable an ancient hero to meet a Christian saint. See Kinds Of Crossovers.

Did the ancient myth-makers intuit something about time that we don't?

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Possibly they did. But in a confused, incoherent way at best.

Ad astra! Sean