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Thesis - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Evolution in general
  - - - State of Morlocks as the guilt of Eloi
      - Morlocks - symbol of animal instincs of humanity ("id")
  - - - Ref to Hesiod's ages of humanity (McLead 'I Flung Myself')
      - Angels and Demons (Shelton "AESTHETIC ANGELS")
- - - - TM
        
        4th dimention - not spatial but mental
        
        passes with uniform velocity throughout life
        
        unstoppable force
        
        we're not stuck in the "present moment"
        
        basic "movement" - retrospection
        
        yet there's "no means of staying back for any length of Time"
        
        Presentation of 4D object
        
        Prof. Simon Newcomb - 3D models require an appropriate perspective
        
        Portraits of a person from different years
        
        A weather record or barometer show changes over time
        
        Limitation of spatial movement upwards
        
        Proper time travel equaled to flying balloons against gravity
        
        Duration - crucial property of any material object
      - TS
        
        Peculiarity of star-light
        
        experiments of Michelson and Morley
        
        its speed is isotropic
        
        the Earth's gravity doesn't affect light's speed
        
        "the speed of light as the fixed quantity, and the Dimensions as variable things"
        
        "The universe adjusts itself in order to render our light-speed measurements constant."
        
        "Duration and a Dimension of Space are interchanged"
        
        "there are . . . others thinking along the same lines—I know of Fitzgerald in Dublin, Lorentz in Leiden, and Henri Poincaré in France"
        
        "The machine twists Space and Time around itself, thus mutating Time into a Spatial Dimension"
        
        it "does not behave like a material object"
        
        Plattnerite has similar properties
        
        Nebogipfel assumes that in OG timeline some human left the Earth and failed to adjust the sun's intensity
        
        the Divergence of Histories
        
        single universe
        
        "I was a murderer of the future"
        
        "I had wiped over billions of unborn lives—lives that would now never come to be"
        
        "I would return into the past, to make one final, conclusive adjustment to History, and abolish my own invention of the infernal device"
        
        "a History Machine, a destroyer of worlds"
        
        multiverse
        
        "versions of History as parallel corridors"
        
        TM "allows . . . to go back and forth along a corridor"
        
        "The corridors exist independently of each other"
        
        "a man looking along one corridor will see a complete and self-consistent History"
        
        "he can have no knowledge of another corridor, and nor can the corridors influence each other"
        
        "But in some corridors . . . even the laws of physics may differ..."
        
        Kurt Gödel - "The rotating-universe idea"
        
        a universe "in which rotation was embedded in the very fabric of the universe"
        
        "our own universe might undergo such a rotation, but on an immensely slow scale"
        
        "It is to do with axis-twisting. In a rotating universe, a journey through space, but reaching the past or future, is possible."
        
        "a universe as dense, everywhere, as the heart of an atom of matter. There, a rotation would be complete in mere fractions of a second."
        
        "because of some property of the Plattnerite, your Time Machine is flickering back and forth to this ultra-dense universe, and on each traverse is exploiting that reality's axis-twisting to travel along a succession of loops into the past or future! So you spiral through time..."
    - - TM
        
        Experiences of TT
        
        "The laboratory got hazy and went dark."
        
        "An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind."
        
        "[Sensations of time travelling] are excessively unpleasant."
        
        Ref to modern tech
        
        a switchback (rollercoaster)
        
        "a helpless headlong motion"
        
        cinematography
        
        "night followed day like the flapping of a black wing."
        
        Sensation of spinning and falling
        
        "I remarked, indeed, a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account."
        
        The prototype is invisible after launching
        
        General characteristics
        
        Changable velocity of time
        
        TM and passangers become immaterial and invisible
        
        Danger of stopping - materialisation with another object (Ref to the later "Plattner Story")
        
        Rapid halt of the machine made TT fall from it
        
        The hail and storm was probably caused by emergence of TM
        
        Objects outside move faster
      - TS
        
        Plattnerite
        
        Enables TM special rotation
        
        Experiences of TT
        
        silence exept internal sounds and TM itself
        
        "it was as if I had been plunged into some new, stark universe, through the walls of which our own world was visible"
        
        The Watcher: "a deep murmur . . . a low eddying, like the sound of some immense river"
        
        "I fancy I heard a tinkle of glass: a skylight pane, perhaps, blown in by the displacement of air."
        
        "I looked out over a landscape reduced by my velocity to the static; only the longest-lived phenomena clung to time long enough to register on my fleeting eye."
        
        Choosing direction of travel (past/future) - only at stop
  - - - the Sphere
      - deserted Earth