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Stephen baxter manifold trilogy
Stephen baxter manifold trilogy








stephen baxter manifold trilogy

It’s like a standing wave set up between source and receiver. The quantum echoes cancel out the source waves, both future and past, everywhere - except along the path taken by the ordinary retarded waves. In turn this emits waves traveling into both future and past, like echoes. The future-traveling wave reaches the detector. The source changes state and sends quantum waves off into future and past.

stephen baxter manifold trilogy

Suppose you have an object of some kind that changes the state of another: a source and a detector, maybe of photons. And these backward waves are vital to the structure of the universe. A clumping of the waves here means this is the most likely place to find that traveling electron emitted from over there.īut, like electromagnetic waves, quantum wave packets emitted from some event travel both forward and backward in time. And if we know the structure of the waves we can tell a great deal about the macroscopic reality they represent. We have good equations to tell us how they propagate. These waves represent flows of - what? Energy? Information? Certainly they crisscross space, spreading out from every quantum event like ripples. I mean, of course, the waves of quantum mechanics. Waves lie at the basis of our best description of reality. The Feynman radio works on the notion of photons - electromagnetic wave packets - traveling back in time. It is a question of transactions, back and forth in time. What happens if you try to change the past is at the top of the list. There’s a lot we don’t understand about time. But if she had drowned they wouldn’t even exist, so how can they save her? Right?

stephen baxter manifold trilogy

The downstreamers are saving their grandmothers, us, from drowning. Right? So why did they need to send a message? To send a message.īut if the downstreamers exist - or will exist - they survived this catastrophe of yours. Taine, you’re saying that these people from the future - the ones you call downstreamers - have reached into the past, to us.










Stephen baxter manifold trilogy