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Closed Timelike Curves

io9 has a recent post on closed timelike curves - and doesn't that sound exciting. Honestly, I don't fully understand what a closed timelike curves is, but in broad physics terms, they allow for pastward time travel within the framework of the theory of relativity. The interesting part is that they manage this by insuring that if you traveled to the past, you wouldn't be able to change anything (thereby avoiding any messy paradoxes). Basically, when you returned to the present it would be...

Read Me At: WEbook

I recently wrote a guest post on digital publishing and The Canal for the website WEbook. Check it out here.

Time Travelers Wear Sunglasses

This photo was floating around a few months back, but I'm finally getting around to posting it here. It was apparently taken in 1940/41 at the reopening of a bridge in British Columbia, but amusingly it has gained some recent attention due to the individual standing right of center, whose choice of fashion seems strangely out of place. Time travel, of course, being the most obvious explanation.
           
Funnily enough, a couple of articles/blogs have referred to him as the 'hipster' time t...

Diversion Books

[image error] Diversion Books, who is publishing The Canal as an ebook (available for the Kindle for $5.99), has recently launched their new website. Check it out here. There's even a photo of yours truly lurking on there somewhere...

It's The Truth

Bumper sticker, as seen at Buyolympia.com.

Canal News: The Bat Cave

Updates on Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, the real life inspiration behind my horror novel, The Canal.

Found some fascinating photos from inside the 'Bat Cave', an abandoned canal-side building that used to house a MTA power station. Click here for the slide show. More photos and additional info on the building's recent history can be found here.

-Portrait of a New York City Brownfield: The Batcave-Nathan Kensinger Photography

Read Me At: The Rumpus

I recently wrote a short piece on Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which you can now read over at The Rumpus. It's a weird riff on a weird book, so be sure to check it out. Here's the link.

Canal News: Viva La Flushing Tunnel

Updates on Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, the real life inspiration behind my horror novel, The Canal.


The canal's flushing tunnel is pretty much the only thing that keeps the stagnant and bacteria-ridden Gowanus from becoming exponentially even more stagnant and bacteria-ridden. So it's nice to see this unsung hero get a recent write-up in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which explains a bit of the tunnel's history. Constructed in 1911 as an anti-pollution measure, the tunnel helped draw fresh(er...

Stephen Hawking On Time Travel

There's a recent article by Stephen Hawking in the Daily Mail (via) where he gives his thoughts on time travel. It turns out he's a believer -- in a sense.
While he's not a fan of pastward time travel and doesn't believe that it's possible, he does propose a few methods for futureward time travel. His ideal one involves a spaceship that could travel at immense speed. The faster you travel, the slower time passes -- allowing you to remain young(er) while most of the universe around you ages.
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The Canal: On The Kindle

The Canal is once again available as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. New cover, new formatting, new publisher -- no digital library is complete without it (I've checked). Get it here.