Not All Time Travelers Want or Need Accessories (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A completely understandable supposition about time travel, forward or backward, is that travel is only possible with mechanical, magical, or psychotronic assistance. True, this helps consistent travel, but some sentients have absolutely no need or want of technology or thaumaturgy to visit new times. To use the obsolete and inadequate metaphor of…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Time Before Time Travel”
Trials and Tribulations of Chrononauts New and Established (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the great assumptions about time travel is that the process of developing a working system is difficult and/or dangerous. As multiple individuals, species, and civilizations demonstrate over and over, implementing the basics of time travel theory is remarkably easy, and becomes inevitable once a civilization starts believing its own hype…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Gaps In the Social Record”
Considering the Sheer Number of Cretaceous Intelligences (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) When discussing Earth’s plethora of pre-human sentient species, by necessity the discussion keeps going back to what paleoarchaeologists refer to as “the Cretaceous Conglomerate,” the surprising number of intelligent and technologically advanced species inhabiting our planet between 140 and 66 million years before the present era. The Pleistocene and Anthropocene epochs of the…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Let's Kill the Time Lord Again"
So what happens when two parties for time travelers happen at the same time? Well, one gets neglected. (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) June 28, 2009. This was the day famed physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers and then sent out invitations after it was done, using the lack of visitors as evidence, not proof but evidence, that time travel was not…
Backstories: Review of The Miniature Gardening Prop Shop by Janit Calvo
Hints as to the future of St. Remedius (Originally appearing as a review of The Gardening In Miniature Prop Shop by Janet Calvo) If the radical expansion of land surface on Earth during the Late Cretaceous had been just a bit slower, we wouldn’t have had a problem. One sentient species derived from dinosaurian ancestors, we could have handled. As it turned out, though, Earth didn’t produce one species of…