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FOR WRITERS: Playing With Paradox

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Riffing off today’s musings on time at our LimFic.com site – writers, do you write time travel stories? How do you get around the inherent paradoxes? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS/WRITERS: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Riffing off today’s WANT article, what are your favorite time travel books or movies? Writers, how have you dealt with the paradoxes of time travel? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR WRITERS: Time Travel Paradoxes

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Have you ever dealt with time travel paradoxes in a story you’ve written? What was the issue, and how did you get around it? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

Is Reality Real? new Paradox Throws It Into Question

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say. And if someone is there to hear it? If you think that means it obviously did make a sound, you might need to revise that opinion. We have found a new paradox in quantum mechanics — one of our two most fundamental scientific theories, together with Einstein’s theory of relativity — that throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality. Quantum mechanics vs. common sense Take a look at these three statements: When someone observes … Read more

SCIENCE: The Paradox of Earth’s Inner Core

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Earth’s Inner Core Shouldn’t Technically Exist Earth’s solid inner core formed about one billion years ago. Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how it happened. One day, about a billion years ago, Earth’s inner core had a growth spurt. The molten ball of liquid metal at the center of our planet rapidly crystallized due to lowering temperatures, growing steadily outward until it reached the roughly 760-mile (1,220 kilometers) diameter to which it’s thought to extend today. That’s the conventional story of the inner core’s creation, anyway. But according to a new paper published online this week in the journal … Read more