Tuesday, September 15th, 2009


BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Can you see time?

Time-space synaesthesia: when time has a shape in one's mind.

I thought everyone did that

Do you have a shape for time? Do you have / experience other modes of 'synaesthesia' as set out in this article?
Halting State -- Charles Stross

You can see it coming, slamming towards you out of the future, like the empty white static that is all anyone has ever heard from beyond the stars, a Final Solution to the human condition, an answer to the Fermi paradox, lights on at home and all the windows tightly shuttered. Because it's a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you're a sucker for it: isn't story-telling what being human is all about? (p.111)

not really spoilery review )

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