5/29/2023 0 Comments Timelike infinityMichael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity’s greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. In one the human race has been conquered by an alien race known as the Qax and Earth is under occup- ation in the. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. The Aristotle’s requirements for the notion of natural place are not completely fulfilled for. The analogy is not perfect like every analogy. Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting… The second novel in Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee sequence.įirst there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. The three types of geodesicstimelike, null and spacelikelead to the concepts of timelike infinity, null infinity, and spacelike infinity as tendency, or places, for bodies along geodesics.
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