Triangulated
All right. So I did think that the media was making too much of a fuss over Dean Devlin and Bryan Singer's TV miniseries The Triangle before this.
But that was before I watched it last night.
It was more of an episodic movie than a miniseries, with the 4 1/2 hour long movie cut into three parts, each lasting 90 minutes. And for some evil reason, Astro had to play all episodes at one go. Thank goodness they had a encore showing of the final episode, or I would have fainted from hunger last night. It started at 7 p.m. and lasted till 11.30! Horrors!
Still, it was worth it. My two cents' worth of opinion for this: AWESOMELY BRILLIANT.
The series isn't perfect though; there are several inconsistencies and incredible coincidences. And one major sub-plot was not resolved at the end. Some characters came and went without further explanation. Theories were thrown back and forth - wormholes, spacetime rents, US government conspiracies.
It's interesting to note that among the four people (oceanographer, meteorologist, psychic and journalist) who were specially chosen to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, none of them was a physicist. Does make you question the credibility of their theories somewhat. But the other areas related to the strange occurences in the Triangle such as the electromagnetic storms, psychic vibrations (yep, I'm skeptical about this area too, but science can't explain it after all - that doesn't mean it's not true, is it?) and the extraordinarily large amount of halocline in the ocean within the Triangle were easily solved by the intellects in the team. (The journalist seemed quite a useless character at first, but then he played a pivotal role in the end. The psychic? His role was questionable. Too convenient.)
Chemistry knowledge proved useful here! Electromagnets and electrolysis were talked about here, and thankfully my two years' worth of Kimia came in handy. Woohoo.
Take a look at this Wiki page on supermassive black holes. Who knew that Matt Bellamy is so much into astrophysics? And to write a song based on this theory...oh man. (Chin Lei, you've met your match!)
This is insane. I can't even understand daya properly, my Physics 2 was a mess - and now I'm reading all this stuff?! I'm going bonkers over these facts! Quantum physics! Astrophysics! Theoretical physics!
I'll stick with Regina Spektor and Oscar Wilde, thank you very much.
Artemis Fowl's The Lost Colony also talks about time travel and dimensional holes. Naturally, the little genius understands this stuff. But it does put the whole idea of the law of causality in a different perspective.
Reading The Time Traveler's Wife is really confusing too. Henry keeps going back and forth in time, and after his daughter Alba was born, he meets her in the past and future too. So I decided to look at time as cyclical instead of in linear form like we do in school. There, problem half-solved.
And then I thought that if time were cyclical, that would mean that past events do not necessarily become the reasons for events now. It could mean that future events and actions would influence our present.
Wow, scary thought. Imagine if we discovered that our future actions are influencing our lives now! Like maybe one of us would offend Pn Chew in the future - and she had to make us resit the Add Maths paper this Friday!
Look at this: the Grandfather paradox.
Does anyone here read Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series? Or even Witch Week? I really need someone to help me sort out these mind warps!
Great. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world. ~ Holly Short
But that was before I watched it last night.
It was more of an episodic movie than a miniseries, with the 4 1/2 hour long movie cut into three parts, each lasting 90 minutes. And for some evil reason, Astro had to play all episodes at one go. Thank goodness they had a encore showing of the final episode, or I would have fainted from hunger last night. It started at 7 p.m. and lasted till 11.30! Horrors!
Still, it was worth it. My two cents' worth of opinion for this: AWESOMELY BRILLIANT.
The series isn't perfect though; there are several inconsistencies and incredible coincidences. And one major sub-plot was not resolved at the end. Some characters came and went without further explanation. Theories were thrown back and forth - wormholes, spacetime rents, US government conspiracies.
It's interesting to note that among the four people (oceanographer, meteorologist, psychic and journalist) who were specially chosen to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, none of them was a physicist. Does make you question the credibility of their theories somewhat. But the other areas related to the strange occurences in the Triangle such as the electromagnetic storms, psychic vibrations (yep, I'm skeptical about this area too, but science can't explain it after all - that doesn't mean it's not true, is it?) and the extraordinarily large amount of halocline in the ocean within the Triangle were easily solved by the intellects in the team. (The journalist seemed quite a useless character at first, but then he played a pivotal role in the end. The psychic? His role was questionable. Too convenient.)
Chemistry knowledge proved useful here! Electromagnets and electrolysis were talked about here, and thankfully my two years' worth of Kimia came in handy. Woohoo.
Take a look at this Wiki page on supermassive black holes. Who knew that Matt Bellamy is so much into astrophysics? And to write a song based on this theory...oh man. (Chin Lei, you've met your match!)
This is insane. I can't even understand daya properly, my Physics 2 was a mess - and now I'm reading all this stuff?! I'm going bonkers over these facts! Quantum physics! Astrophysics! Theoretical physics!
I'll stick with Regina Spektor and Oscar Wilde, thank you very much.
Artemis Fowl's The Lost Colony also talks about time travel and dimensional holes. Naturally, the little genius understands this stuff. But it does put the whole idea of the law of causality in a different perspective.
Reading The Time Traveler's Wife is really confusing too. Henry keeps going back and forth in time, and after his daughter Alba was born, he meets her in the past and future too. So I decided to look at time as cyclical instead of in linear form like we do in school. There, problem half-solved.
And then I thought that if time were cyclical, that would mean that past events do not necessarily become the reasons for events now. It could mean that future events and actions would influence our present.
Wow, scary thought. Imagine if we discovered that our future actions are influencing our lives now! Like maybe one of us would offend Pn Chew in the future - and she had to make us resit the Add Maths paper this Friday!
Look at this: the Grandfather paradox.
Does anyone here read Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series? Or even Witch Week? I really need someone to help me sort out these mind warps!
Great. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world. ~ Holly Short
posted by Lynn at
11:27 am
3 Comments:
i didn't read ALL of them la...just the very basics. tak boleh faham! =P
one major theme in witch week is about parallel universes, and how eeriely similar these worlds are to each other. like the many many worlds in The Lives of Christopher Chant. except that in witch week, magic caused all these worlds to exist independently on their own, but at some stage of their history, they were the SAME.
in witch week, witches were being burned everywhere, and technically magic was not supposed to exist in that world. and then it turns out that that world was NOT supposed to exist in the first place.
aiya, go read the book la. there's even an interesting sub-theme on Guy Fawkes. Seems that this world was born when Fawkes did - or didn't - blow up Parliament on November 5th. the possibilities of both circumstances happening at the same time created whole new worlds.
D.W. Jones does a fair bit on parallel universes. seriously. and people still think fantasy is all about escapism and wizards in silly pointy hats!
I dont remember all the facts since it was quite some time ago: in science fiction it is usually what happens in the past that effects the present then the future. In that order. Cant remember the exact term for this but, say you travel to the future then shoot someone and miss then life moves on yada yada yada (you must excuse my lack of plot) then you decide to go back to the past and try shoot the idiot again but something will always occur in order to prevent you from shooting the person because in the future you werent able to do so...
Another example is in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry told Hermione that he knew he could conjure a corporeal patronus at the lake (to save himself and Sirius "i Love you" Black) because he'd done it already.
Still confused, then I should've mentioned this earlier, go look up Time on Wikipedia. It'll provide you with many more types of time-travelling info. Very intriguing read.
wow, thanks ameera!
well, the same thing happened in the Time Traveler's Wife. The guy keeps time-travelling to his past and future, and he wasn't able to change anything, even after he witnessed his own death in the past.
i guess i'll have to read this up on wiki...
thanks again! =)
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