The Physics Of Time Corridors

The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER FOUR.

We have discussed the physics of the time corridors before but here is a summary.

(i) If a corridor is:

"'...a tube of force, whose length has been rotated onto the time axis..." (p.33)

- and if there are only four dimensions, then the time axis of the tube of force has been rotated onto one of our three spatial dimensions. Therefore, it should be possible to construct a corridor in ordinary space that would give access to different moments within the internal history of the tube of force or corridor.

(ii) If there are more than four dimensions and if the time axis of the tube/corridor has been rotated onto a fifth dimension, then the history of the corridor is not accessible from our three-dimensional space but more complicated arrangements should be possible.

(iii) Storm tells Lockridge that:

"'...the human body has a finite width equivalent to a couple of months.'" (p. 32)

Not in relativistic physics where 186,000 miles equals only one second. A character in James Blish's The Quincunx Of Time calculates that a hundred-year-old man extends for five hundred and eighty-six trillion, five hundred and sixty-nine billion, six hundred million miles along the temporal axis. Is that 586,569,600,000,000 miles? It is hard to get the number of zeros right.

A corridor that:

"'...extends from circa 4000 B.C. to A.D. 2000...'" (p. 33)

- should stretch for 6000 light-years through space before it is rotated onto the temporal axis.

That does not summarize all the physics of the time corridors but meanwhile here I have to eat something, then go out for part of the evening.

Into futurity.