Amy's time-o-matic blog

The Doctor, an ancient alien from a Gallifreyan race, steals a T. A. R. D. I. S. (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) from their home planet to travel though time and space. Picking up lovable companions along the way, iconic pasts, dazzling futures and bizarre planets are explored and rescued from tyrants, invaders and evil entities. Facing many hardships and tragedies, the Doctor and the companions change civilizations and timelines for the better. The time travel displayed in this show pays homage to the idea that changing the past, future, and even alien societies can be altered with little to no thought of consequences. This is demonstrated in episodes where the doctor marries Queen Elizabeth, befriends Vincent Van Gogh and becomes the president of the world, which I don’t believe is a part of history (unfortunately).  Even though the ramifications are ignored, it gives viewers a sense of childlike fantasy to explore anything they could possibly want to, ...

Two societies, Garden and Agency, both utilize time travel to preserve their footholds in modern civilization. Red and Blue, two agents from the conflicting factions, continually meet one another across space and time, both hoping to come out on top with sabotaging and stabilising timelines that will benefit their potential futures. From both weird and wonderful pasts and futures, unknowingly something happens. With every future altered and countless missions completed an attraction is made, although criminal, neither can resist their growing bond.  Pursuing this unfamiliar relationship will only result in death of both individuals, and yet with the ongoing war, there can only be one winner. This unique novel shows the innumerable ways time travel can be used to propel one’s ideas and values on to others in totalitarian style and how the smallest of changes to timelines can affect the future considerably in whosoever favor. Cruelty and countless battlefield taun...

Time travel is a far-fetched thought that has been interlaced in modern society through many avenues of fiction and pop culture. In James Gleick’s book it shows the early accounts of this science, and how it has advanced and evolved to an extent where it has prompted countless scientists to test its credibility in reality. This very phenomenon has led to a superior knowledge of time and space. This novel starts with one of the first appearances of time travel in H. G. Wells novel The time machine, which sparked the conversation of combining time with technology to create a way to rediscover the past and peek into the future. We then follow the path by exploring Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Woody Allen and even Doctor Who! This exploration presents the thin line between modern physics and science fiction and its theoretical dire consequences of temporal shifts and vanishing futures. Author: James Gleick Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 2016 Further informati...