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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you read "The Six Fingerx of Time" by R. A. Lafferty?

This is the first time that anyone mentioned that story to me. And it
was available in my ebook library. So...

That's one fantastic little story. It's still swirling around in my
mind. You are the man. Thank you for sharing.

Once, as a small boy in a grocery store with my parents, my eyes
glimpsed the vestigial double thumb of a man in the store. My town's in
the oil patch, so my imagination attributed it to yet another industrial
accident. At the time, it just seemed too rude to ask the man about it.

"The New Accelerator" foreshadows "The Six Fingers of Time" carefulness
in the handling non-accelerated objects. The speech of non-accelerated
people reminds me of a either Twilight Zone episode or a hypertime
movie, probably in B&W, but the name of it eludes me.

The mysticism of six, twelve, and sixty as an insight into time has
bugged me for years. Ever since this passage from Preistley's _Man and
Time_ came to my attention:

       The division of the day into 24 parts, all of equal length
    throughout the year, now seems to us inevitable. In the earliest
    civilizations, however, the hours were not of constant length.
    The Egyptians divided the daylight day into 12 parts, and the
    darkness into 12 more; but, as the length of daylight increased
    during the year, the 12 day light divisions were lengthened.
    The Babylonians followed a similar practice but divided daylight
    and darkness each into six parts, thus having a 12-hour day. But
    even by the fourth century BC the Chinese had established a
    system of 12 equal "double-hours," whereas the Japanese
    continued to use variable hours until the 19th century. Early
    Hebrew day-division only recognized six periods, three light
    and three dark. And the "day" itself began at different times
    among different peoples.

--
 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz                   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 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-22 03:32 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 10:35 -0500
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 17:50 +0000
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:50 -0500
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:02 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 16:47 +0000
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-22 12:35 -0700
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:04 -0500
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 16:41 -0700
  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 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 Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:15 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-22 22:41 -0400
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 20:50 +0000
  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 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2015-08-23 13:45 -0700
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-23 17:14 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 01:28 +0000

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