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Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

Started byDon Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net>
First post2015-08-22 02:48 +0000
Last post2015-08-24 01:28 +0000
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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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#420850

Fromnebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus)
Date2015-08-23 02:20 +0000
Message-ID<mrbakg$13f$1@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to#420797
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.  

-- 
                                                                Joseph Nebus
 Math: Reading the Comics: Name-Dropping Edition        http://wp.me/p1RYhY-Qh
Humor: The Origin Of The Specious                       http://wp.me/p37lb5-Wm
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#420901

FromAhasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com>
Date2015-08-23 13:45 -0700
Message-ID<3b94c3db-e340-4b1b-b0b6-d90045f862a6@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#420850
On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 10:20:04 PM UTC-4, Joseph Nebus 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. [snip]

And I am *really* surprised that no one has mentioned John D.
MacDonald's _The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything_
(http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7583)

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#420928

FromRobert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com>
Date2015-08-23 17:14 -0700
Message-ID<e4baa5da-9a1d-4299-b028-e62e55059f75@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#420901
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 21:45:20 UTC+1, Ahasuerus  wrote:
> On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 10:20:04 PM UTC-4, Joseph Nebus 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. [snip]
> 
> And I am *really* surprised that no one has mentioned John D.
> MacDonald's _The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything_
> (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7583)

Well... there's all the time in the world.  ;-)

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#420930

FromDon Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net>
Date2015-08-24 01:28 +0000
Message-ID<20150823a@crcomp.net>
In reply to#420850
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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