Anonymous
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6/26/2025, 9:23:31 AM
No.508766175
6/26/2025, 9:23:31 AM
No.508766175
idk why the impulse to post this here just came to me but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
the founder of esalen, michael murphy, when he wasn't hosting glowing CIA human potential workshops with the people who invented the personal computer, the internet and psychedelics, or writing books about russian psychics and san francisco getting nuked, said that this book by physicist (professor emeritus at UC Irvine) Gregory Benford was basically a novelized version of classified research being done by glowies
in the book, a future version of earth is suffering catastrophic environmental collapse from environmental thresholds being crossed and scientists figure out how to send information back in time to the past version of Earth ( using tachyons, einstein rosen bridges, calculating Earth's position in spacetime to land the messages correctly)
An eccentric phyiscs professor at a University of California school starts picking up the messages from future earth and, yadda yadda
anyway the significant part about this is that Michael Murphy is a guy in a position to know things, on the level of Jacques Vallee or above, and he let it slip in an interview that the US had figured out time travel information transfer all the way back in the 70s and 80s
(the book is kinda mid desu, you can tell that Benford didn't care much about the story or writing but was just using it as a vehicle for the concepts. kinda kim stanley robinson-esque. a lot of good sci fi is like that though)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
the founder of esalen, michael murphy, when he wasn't hosting glowing CIA human potential workshops with the people who invented the personal computer, the internet and psychedelics, or writing books about russian psychics and san francisco getting nuked, said that this book by physicist (professor emeritus at UC Irvine) Gregory Benford was basically a novelized version of classified research being done by glowies
in the book, a future version of earth is suffering catastrophic environmental collapse from environmental thresholds being crossed and scientists figure out how to send information back in time to the past version of Earth ( using tachyons, einstein rosen bridges, calculating Earth's position in spacetime to land the messages correctly)
An eccentric phyiscs professor at a University of California school starts picking up the messages from future earth and, yadda yadda
anyway the significant part about this is that Michael Murphy is a guy in a position to know things, on the level of Jacques Vallee or above, and he let it slip in an interview that the US had figured out time travel information transfer all the way back in the 70s and 80s
(the book is kinda mid desu, you can tell that Benford didn't care much about the story or writing but was just using it as a vehicle for the concepts. kinda kim stanley robinson-esque. a lot of good sci fi is like that though)