I stumbled across the New Chronology in looking at models of history. It's a hoot. I'll get more into it later, but I thought I'd write it down now to put it in something. Maybe in A Cornish Mess, maybe in the Future Modern Ancient Greeks or maybe something else. But, topics to study: New Chronology, Nikolai Morozov, Jean Hardouin and Anatoly Fomenko. The idea would be these three guys are stuck in the "middle" where the timetravelers of the story go in between their destinations.
Actually, I don't think this would fit with a Cornish Mess so, it's going to be in the Future Modern Ancient Greeks storyline.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Theories of the Universe
A silly little post caught my eye and while fighting off the incessant advertisements that came with the little nonsensical philosophical deepness of some facebooker, I did get some short little synopsis (probably horribly oversimplified) of some interesting takes on reality. I thought I might be able to use some. So, here are some facebook theories of the universe to explore in Time Travel stories and specifically A Cornish Mess.
Idealism - Reality is merely a construction of the perceptions held within the mind. A divine mind is able to hold all of the construction of all the perceptions and create an entire universe in the mind.
Presentism - The only true existence is that of the current moment. The past exists only in the mind as a construction of memories. The future only exists of fallible predictions based on the past.
Great Glaciation - The universe will simply become a cold wasteland after all energy has ceased to exist. Matter will become motionless and frozen.
Solipsism - The only thing that can be known to exist is you. All other things outside of one's own mind can be doubted to be real.
Phenomenalism - Existence of things is illusionary. Only the effects of those things are real.
Multiverse - Modal logic and parallel universes. Pretty self-explanatory on numerous levels.
Fictional Realism - If you think of something in this universe it becomes real in another universe. Demands the acceptance of multiverse as reality.
Eternalism - Time exists all at once. Everything is happening concurrently, creation, your birth, your death. But how you observe the universe is basically your vantage point. We can only see from one vantage point at time. But causality is therefore illusionary.
Idealism - Reality is merely a construction of the perceptions held within the mind. A divine mind is able to hold all of the construction of all the perceptions and create an entire universe in the mind.
Presentism - The only true existence is that of the current moment. The past exists only in the mind as a construction of memories. The future only exists of fallible predictions based on the past.
Great Glaciation - The universe will simply become a cold wasteland after all energy has ceased to exist. Matter will become motionless and frozen.
Solipsism - The only thing that can be known to exist is you. All other things outside of one's own mind can be doubted to be real.
Phenomenalism - Existence of things is illusionary. Only the effects of those things are real.
Multiverse - Modal logic and parallel universes. Pretty self-explanatory on numerous levels.
Fictional Realism - If you think of something in this universe it becomes real in another universe. Demands the acceptance of multiverse as reality.
Eternalism - Time exists all at once. Everything is happening concurrently, creation, your birth, your death. But how you observe the universe is basically your vantage point. We can only see from one vantage point at time. But causality is therefore illusionary.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Stories to Be Told
Here are the stories (so far they are all still in my head).
Current Date: 1/29/2015
A Cornish Mess (The one I'm currently working on). - Time Traveling Bumbling & Stumbling.
Status: The framework is done. I've got a few chapters written in rough drafts.
The Joseph Flannigan Series (Habitaciones Con Banos, The Bulgogi) - A writer losing his way and then coming up with the goods at the last second.
Status: The framework is basically done for Habitaciones. I think even most of it is written in some form of draft. I haven't played with it for a few years. The Quest For The World's Greatest Beef Bulgogi is somewhat thought out. I'm not sure if anything is really done on it though.
The House of Urtsiul - An Epic Style story about the ancient times.
Status: I'm pretty sure that most of this exists in some form of rough draft.
A Hagiography of Obscurity: Loosely Based on a Loosely Held Version of Reality - Short Stories Concerning Obscure Saints and Religious Figures
Status: An Idea
The Definitive History of Texas - An historical account of Texas, if Texas had never been brought into the United States.
Status: An Idea
Current Date: 1/29/2015
A Cornish Mess (The one I'm currently working on). - Time Traveling Bumbling & Stumbling.
Status: The framework is done. I've got a few chapters written in rough drafts.
The Joseph Flannigan Series (Habitaciones Con Banos, The Bulgogi) - A writer losing his way and then coming up with the goods at the last second.
Status: The framework is basically done for Habitaciones. I think even most of it is written in some form of draft. I haven't played with it for a few years. The Quest For The World's Greatest Beef Bulgogi is somewhat thought out. I'm not sure if anything is really done on it though.
The House of Urtsiul - An Epic Style story about the ancient times.
Status: I'm pretty sure that most of this exists in some form of rough draft.
A Hagiography of Obscurity: Loosely Based on a Loosely Held Version of Reality - Short Stories Concerning Obscure Saints and Religious Figures
Status: An Idea
The Definitive History of Texas - An historical account of Texas, if Texas had never been brought into the United States.
Status: An Idea
7 Days Off In the Land of Douglas Adams
Well, it's been seven days since I last posted. I've been traveling, moving my sister-in-law from Texas to Georgia. So, I do have a bit of an excuse. But, while I haven't been writing, I did do a little reading. Now that I once again have a computer right in front of me I'll jot down the little notes that I had over the week. It wasn't much, but just a few things.
While gone I immersed myself in some Douglas Adams. I had read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a long time ago, but I think the version I had read before was the transcript from the old BBC Broadcast. Anyway, the time between my readings was very very big. On this occasion I've been reading The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide on the plane and then read The Restaurant At the End of the Universe, which if I ever do open up a restaurant I think I will call it Milliways - if I don't get sued. Since I didn't have any paper I jotted a few quotes down on my phone that I liked, with references, but this was a hassle so I don't have as much as I'd like. Suffice it to say that some of my writing style is influenced by Adams and I'm probably going to be reading a bit more of him in the near future. Without further ado though here are three quotes that I found particularly entertaining.
Ford to Arthur "History is never altered you see, it just fits together like a jigsaw" (303). I like this idea of time being thoroughly deterministic, not actually like it, but find it an interesting thing to explore in A Cornish Mess. Is time unable to be altered? Does the Grandfather Paradox hold true?
Zaphod, upon leaving Milliways right before the end of the universe [It is] "nothing but a gnab gib... opposite of a big bang" (233). I laughed aloud to myself at this one.
In the introduction I found another interesting concept to explore when writing on time traveling (which is the goal of my first novella I'm attempting, called A Cornish Mess. "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is a nother which states that this has already happened" (148). It's funny, clever and a bit depressing all at once.
In addition to reading these two books I also listened to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It was very funny. Interestingly enough though, unlike Ford's assertion that history cannot be altered the ghost in this broadcast very nearly alters history by going back and nearly stopping life from being created on earth in the first place. Luckily it's stopped by Professor Chronotis altering time, after the ghost is trying to change time but before the present where the story mostly takes place.
I find Douglas Adams' stories to be pleasantly jarring to the brain in syntax and style. It's fantastic fun and smart. While I loved the movie, I find the book more riveting, though the ending of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a bit depressing. Plus, Douglas Adams wrote for Doctor Who and that's about all you'd need for me to be hooked.
While gone I immersed myself in some Douglas Adams. I had read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a long time ago, but I think the version I had read before was the transcript from the old BBC Broadcast. Anyway, the time between my readings was very very big. On this occasion I've been reading The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide on the plane and then read The Restaurant At the End of the Universe, which if I ever do open up a restaurant I think I will call it Milliways - if I don't get sued. Since I didn't have any paper I jotted a few quotes down on my phone that I liked, with references, but this was a hassle so I don't have as much as I'd like. Suffice it to say that some of my writing style is influenced by Adams and I'm probably going to be reading a bit more of him in the near future. Without further ado though here are three quotes that I found particularly entertaining.
Ford to Arthur "History is never altered you see, it just fits together like a jigsaw" (303). I like this idea of time being thoroughly deterministic, not actually like it, but find it an interesting thing to explore in A Cornish Mess. Is time unable to be altered? Does the Grandfather Paradox hold true?
Zaphod, upon leaving Milliways right before the end of the universe [It is] "nothing but a gnab gib... opposite of a big bang" (233). I laughed aloud to myself at this one.
In the introduction I found another interesting concept to explore when writing on time traveling (which is the goal of my first novella I'm attempting, called A Cornish Mess. "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is a nother which states that this has already happened" (148). It's funny, clever and a bit depressing all at once.
In addition to reading these two books I also listened to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It was very funny. Interestingly enough though, unlike Ford's assertion that history cannot be altered the ghost in this broadcast very nearly alters history by going back and nearly stopping life from being created on earth in the first place. Luckily it's stopped by Professor Chronotis altering time, after the ghost is trying to change time but before the present where the story mostly takes place.
I find Douglas Adams' stories to be pleasantly jarring to the brain in syntax and style. It's fantastic fun and smart. While I loved the movie, I find the book more riveting, though the ending of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a bit depressing. Plus, Douglas Adams wrote for Doctor Who and that's about all you'd need for me to be hooked.
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