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As part of a planned experiment, a man falls into a black hole and escapes through a wormhole. (Don't worry, it is only a backup copy of his mind on an artificial body specifically designed for this task.) The story explains Lorentz transformations the way I always like to: as demonstrating that there is a sort of "conversion" possible between space and time. People sometimes object when I describe it that way, thinking that it may look like that mathematically though "of course" space and time are different. But, this story illustrates what would happen if this mathematical metaphor was real and taken to the extreme:
First published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (January 1998) and reprinted in Impact Parameter. |
More information about this work can be found at www.amazon.com. |
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Exciting News: The 1,600th entry was recently added to this database of mathematical fiction! Also, for those of you interested in non-fictional math books
let me (shamelessly) plug the recent release of the second edition of my soliton theory textbook.
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College of Charleston)