A Happy New Year To Alll Our Readers

[poliphilo]

I overslept by an hour- I guess that's traditional- but I wasn't late to bed. I stood at the upstairs window and watched the fireworks and then- at about five past midnight- turned in.

2005 already. It only seems moments ago that we were counting up to the millennium.

I've been noticing this recently - how I'll call up a memory and it'll seem like something I've only just done. For instance, I was packing up the Christmas tree decorations yesterday and I thought, hey, why am I doing this again so soon?

It's like we can fold time like paper. The present moment and the remembered moment touch and the time between is off to one side- disregarded.

I spent the dying minutes of the old year watching a couple of minor celebs get transformed- by the magic of prosthetics- into persons of the opposite sex. At the end of the process they looked like burns victims who had had their faces patched up with skin off their backsides- distinctly weird. They then had to go speed dating and fool a room full of people. I guess the
moral is that speed daters don't look too hard at the people sitting opposite.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think there's a theory that we might one day be able to reach far-off star systems not by travelling the distance (which would take ages)but by folding space (and time.)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Tesseracts!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Erm...yes.

I just googled 'em and had a Homer Simpson experience. You know, where someone is explaining something to him and you see this bubble above his head full of cartoon animals. I was always terrified of mathematics. :)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I should have said that the only reason I know what a tesseract is, is because of Madeleine L'Engle's book "A Wrinkle in Time". The concept is basically as you described, folded space. (Thus, the wrinkle in time...)