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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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On 2015-08-22, Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>> If you preserve inertia, then your story is mostly about
>> walking around looking at stuff.  You may not even be
>> able to leave a room, if the door is closed.

...
> Thank you for augmenting the hypertime list and giving me even more food
> for thought. "The New Accelerator" singes objects and foreshadows xkcd's
> take. "The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells" [1] is a TV mini-series that
> adapts "The New Accelerator" for its opening episode. That episode
> actually features a baseball that becomes singed when the hypertiming
> Professor Gibberne throws it. It also highlights H G Wells' common sense
> in regard to new situations.
>
> There really ought to be a hypertiming Dr Miguelito Loveless somewhere
> in "The Wild Wild West" can. :) My original post also neglects to
> mention "The Time Travelers." [2] The Travelers end up hypertiming near
> the end of the movie. The hypertimers also show up as a flicker at the
> beginning. 

Not sure if either of you mentioned the Larry Niven _Gil the ARM_ story that
gets a version of hypertime involved in it. (It's a murder mystery, with a
completely unknown/unrecognizable weapon at first...)

Dave
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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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