Barbarian Wormhole Summit!

I read yesterday that scientists want to create a wormhole, which will allow people from the future to travel back to this time. The wormhole thing's a bit vague though. I'm not sure they should be allowed to just create a wormhole. Aren't wormholes theoretical concepts? They might create a paradox. In other related news, Russian scientists are also claiming that they are on the verge of developing time travel. It's all quite exciting and at the same time, fairly scary. I always go back to the Ray Bradbury short story I read in school, where one of the central characters went back to a time before men, where they tried hard not to do anything paradoxical, but accdentally bent the stem of a single flower. The long and the short of which was that when they returned to the present, all writing was backwards.

There are a couple interesting programmes on telly this week. In about an hour's time, there's a show about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Very hotly protected by the Cathoilc faith, because they know and we know that the contents could utterly destroy their version of biblical events. As history tells us, they'll do "anything" to protect the faith, because faith is far more important than the truth. On Wednesday evening, there will be a program about Attila the Hun airing. I'm looking forward to that. Apparently he was vastly intelligent and complex, while still possessing the brutality and penchant for violence that made him the lovable rogue he was.

Hillwalking on Bennachie tomorrow looks like it will go ahead. We had a lovely day here today and if it's the same tomorrow, we'll have a great time. As usual, I'll be sure to take some photos for you. I'm certain that the view from the summit of the "Mither Tap" will be well worth the exertion taken to get up there in the first place.

3-D TV!

So scientists have taken the first step on the road to developing 3-dimensional television, except no they haven't really. The image in the photo is created using a mirror spinning at what is probably a dangerous speed. Notice also, how the lines at the extremities are slightly blurred while those in the centre are sharper. It seems that white light is the only type workable at this point as well.

Clealry, there's a long way to go until we see television akin to that demonstrated in 2000AD, back in the early 80's, with their Halo Jones series. That's where I first saw the concept, and it made me stop and think at the time, "Will this ever be possible?" As I've said before, so many ideas demonstrated in 2000AD have come to be, and in some instances I suspect it was former 2000AD readers that brought them to fruition.

I was trawling through Digg this morning, when I spotted a link to an Asimov short story and thought "I'll have a qucik squizz at that then!" See the Sci-Fi connection coming through again, nothing wrong with a bit of Sci-Fi, especially 50's-60's, when anything was thought possible. Quite a nice little short story, it reminded me of the time when I had to take a book out of the school library for 'O' Grade English. I just sort of randomly selected a short stories compilation, which was mainly rubbish. The one exception was a Ray Bradbury short, which if I recall correctly had some time travellers travel back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they had several dramatic encounters. The twist in the tale being that, on returning to their own time, they found that everything was slightly different, back to front in fact. And, it was all because one of them had crushed a bug. Very thought provoking, especially when you're 13!