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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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In article <20150821a@crcomp.net>,
Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> said:

>    Bradbury's "Frost and Frost" [4], written in 1946,

slight error on the title:

     * Frost and Fire (1946) also appeared as:
          + Variant Title: The Creatures That Time Forgot (1946)

> also fails to honor inertia. In the story, exposure to radiation
> causes the survivors of a rocket crash to live out their lives in
> eight short days. Yet the survivors easily open the door of their
> rocket.

Although their development and aging took place at a hyperfast rate,
I'm not sure that they were accelerated.  I think that they
subjectively as well as objectively experienced only about 190 hours
of existence from birth to death by old age.  Or at last that's how
I interpreted it when I read the story way back when.

(No, even with some sort of near-instant education process you still
can't make the setup make any sense.  This _is_ Bradbury after all.)

> In television it again is "hit or miss" in regards to inertia. The
> _Outer Limits_ episode called "The Premonition" [5] honors
> inertia.

Sort of.  It did with regard to macro objects, but not, say, air
molecules.  (I.e., the accelerated characters could breathe.)  There
was also some inconsistency even at the macro level; the characters
were able to move a piece of nylon strapping around so as to rig a
connection between a (frozen) runaway truck's front wheel and its
brake pedal such that in the real-time frame of reference the
turning wheel mechanically applied the brake.

(As with the Bradbury story, this is as best as I recall.  I could
be misremembering.)

-- wds

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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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