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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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In rec.arts.sf.written Joseph Nebus <nebusj-@-rpi-.edu> wrote:
> In <20150821a@crcomp.net> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> writes:
>
>>So there you have it. Inertia as the key insight to hypertime. :)
>
>        I'm surprised no one's mentioned James Blish's short story
> 'Common Time' yet.  It opens with the protagonist becoming aware that
> he is experiencing life something like 6,000 times faster than normal.
> This is a particular inconvenience because while his mind is running
> really quite fast, his body is moving at normal rates.  He works out
> that even if he wanted to write something down, he couldn't move his
> pencil fast enough to hold his thought through the whole process of
> writing.

The story reminds me of a sleepless night in bed with thoughts racing
through my mind until the wee hours of the morning. Followed by the
sound of a riveting gun in my head as the alarm goes off.

--
 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
 / \                                 In a relative way
 `-'                              And returned on the previous night.

What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 02:48 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:54 -0400
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 16:44 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 12:49 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-22 14:56 -0400
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2021-11-23 03:30 +0000
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime eripe <eripe.dk@gmail.com> - 2022-01-09 20:10 -0800
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 20:49 +0000
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 17:10 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:07 -0500
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 13:50 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 14:06 -0700
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-08-23 02:20 +0000
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 01:28 +0000

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