A classic science fiction story was "Light of Other Days," by Bob Shaw.
It explored the social consequences of a new invention--"slow glass,"
a glass pane for which light would take so long to pass through it that
you could watch scenes from long ago. Unlike television, a slow glass
pane presented a scene in three dimensions that was exactly the same as
looking out an ordinary window. A sensitive and poignant story, well
worth reading if you never did.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/shaw/shaw1.html
I thought about this in connection with last nite's episode. It seems
to take that projectile an extra half hour to get to the island; and
Faraday noted how light seems to refract differently. We're dealing
here with a "slow island." NOT necessarily slow in time, but slow to
travel through, like the slow glass in the story.
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Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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