Timelike Infinity

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• copacope · Nov 19, 2016 · Recommends

  The Xeelee Sequence books (Vacuum Diagrams, Raft, Timelike Infinity etc) or The Manifold Series, all by Stephen Baxter

  on “Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics” ↗
• monkeypizza · Aug 19, 2020 · Recommends

  A similar process is used in "Timelike Infinity" by Stephen Baxter. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Timelike_Infinity His work generally uses this kind of extreme physics as plot devices and he's one of the best hard sf authors for this type of physics…

  on “Humanly Traversable Wormholes” ↗
• spiralx · Feb 9, 2024 · Recommends

  Stephen Baxter's books are along the same lines, start with one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelike_Infinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)

  on “Permutation City (1994)” ↗
• shagie · Oct 12, 2026 · Recommends

  This leads us to Winger's cat (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend ). In the novel Timelike Infinity (great series btw), the Ultimate Observer is claimed to be the consciousness at the end of universe that collapses all entangled wave functions. Note the word "entangled" ... like a ball of yarn. The…

  on “Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search” ↗
• AaronFriel · Aug 19, 2020 · Mentions

  This is the scenario the author Stephen Baxter used in the book Timelike Infinity. Wormhole technology on a ship sent in a relativistic journey circling the solar system, used to bootstrap humanity and influence it in the past. There is a catch, this sort of time travel like many…

  on “Humanly Traversable Wormholes” ↗