The Assumption Is That Temporal Anomalies Only Affect the Future (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the greatest conceits about time travel, and one of the reasons why it remains possible, is the assumption that travelers can make significant and enduring changes from their own actions. More often than not, the timeline is damaged by incessant interference from multiple visitors, but individuals have precious…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Who Hoaxes the Hoaxers?”
Deception and Counter-Deception (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While the regulation and commodification of cheap and effective time travel in the late 20th Century (as far as humans were concerned; other species and biota had their own standards about temporal visitation) was instigated specifically to stop paradoxes and incursions, the urge to use the technology or thaumaturgy to do precisely that was nearly overwhelming. Surprisingly,…
St. Remedius Radio: “A Timewave Is Coming, And Some Of Us Want To Surf”
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…
St. Remedius Radio: “Cries and Whispers”
Time Travel Solves Fewer Issues Than One Would Think (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Much like other cases of technological hubris, few practical applications exist for time travel. Specifically, few applications exist for physical transport in a timestream, as scrying windows, nanobubble viewers, and Bell theoretical jars pass necessary information without worries of temporal shriving, corporeal or mental losses in quantum pockets, or active past…
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: "Knowledge Rolls Downhill"
With all the efforts to save items and knowledge from the ravages of time, what happens when time reaches its end? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the biggest problems with the availability of cheap and effective time travel, other than users traveling back to their sordid youths and teaching their previous selves the merits of compassion, humility, and studiousness with the help of…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Time Travel For Tobogganers"
Every Form of Time Travel Has Rules (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For the most part, time travel within our continuum is a slow, expensive, and often extremely painful process that never gives the results expected. Temporal currents and eddies, paradoxes, the various life forms (if you can call them that) which feed either on lost items or on travelers seeking them…the number of known…