Timestream Post: Moment of Self-Doubt from 06.14.2012

Well, all of my posts can’t necessarily be rosy, can they? Today, I’m grappling with the ramifications of my decision to engage in a popular television project investigating alleged Unidentified Flying Object sightings and crashes. The results of the project, now titled, “Chasing UFOs,” bears little resemblance to the hard science project I was led to […]

Timestream Post: A note from 01.07.2011

In the spirit of this experiment, I send this message half-a-decade into the future. (Truthfully, I hope to positively litter the digital timestream with notes, showing that cyberspace may not only connect us through space, but also through time.) First, my greeting: Hello, 2016! This is a year made nearly famous by films such as […]

Timestream Post: A note from 07.19.2011

Greetings from the past! In this case, the date is July 19, 2011, and I’ve just returned from the first of a two-day assessment of a radiological laboratory outside of Charleston, South Carolina. While I’m supposed to be knee-deep in schoolwork, I’ve found a little extra time to continue this a-chronistic endeavor. When shall I […]

Jumping the Timestream: A Note from 07.20.2011

I’m writing today one year into the future because I can’t stand not knowing what’s going to happen in the next few hours. (Strange, I realize, but I can’t just publicly ask my future self in a few hours due to contract obligations relating to the answer… so I have to send this far enough […]

Timestream Post: A note from 04.29.2011

So, who are you? I’m referring to you, my offspring, who as I type this is not yet half way toward growing into a self-sustaining future person. Jordan (my wife) and I have decided to wait to see what you are, so I don’t know yet if I’m addressing my future son or daughter… But […]

Time travel physics in flux

Something is rotten with the state of time travel/lightspeed physics. To “c” (the symbolic designation for the speed of light), or not to “c”? -That is the question plaguing physicists in a number of recent studies with apparently conflicting results. Traditionally, the speed of light is viewed as a barrier to physical movement. According to conventional […]

Digital Time Capsule note from 2010

With the ubiquity of our digital infrastructure, it occurs to me that one possible means of transmitting information across vast stretches of time may, in fact, be to simply schedule it for much-delayed delivery. How far will this work in principle? I feel confident I can trust WordPress’s existence for six months. One year? Still […]

Timestream Post: A Note from 10.7.2010

It’s October 7th, and in a few moments I’m heading out to the National Archives in Chicago in search of NERVA (the joint NASA-Atomic Energy Commission program to develop nuclear thermal rockets) material and program files. As this is another of my digital time-travel experiment messages, I’m sending this far enough out to encompass a […]

Timestream Post: A Note from 10.21.2010

-Just a short-range temporal pot-shot this evening, and one I imagine (won’t know for certain until we get there) will be the first of these digital time travel experiment messages to actually land in the future. The date is October 21st, 2010. Honestly, I’m really hoping to be where you are, intrepid reader: The future. […]

Another Time Traveler found in 1928 film?

Just as with this 21st-Century hipster discovered at a Canadian bridge dedication in the 1940s, another historical anachronism has been spotted, this time in the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film, The Circus. As reported by the U.K. Daily Mail, a Chaplin film expert discovered an older woman walking alone across the background of a scene in […]