C James

Not me. Hi Krista! Don't worry about it too much. I'll bet most of them are just as nervous as you. The person below me is having warm weather.

There are some interesting experimental results in quantum mechanics that could indicate that not only do other universes exist, but that they can be interacted with. One is the interfearance patterns gnerated by light passing through slits: when you have a large number of photons (which have both wavelike and particle like qualities) passing through the slits, you predictably get interfearance patterns on the other side. However, they still exhibit this behavior when ONE SINGLE photon is used. One answer to this connundrum is that the photon is being "interfeared with" by by a photon in the experiment in a a "nearby" universe. I've always viewed time as simply another spatiel dimension, a fourth co-ordinate. It has already been proven that time is not a constant , so can there be a negative flow of time? I don't see why not.

I think you are mistaken! I keep telling you, I'm a lurker! HOWEVER, I notice that SOMEONE is about to make his 300 post!! Rare things though they may be?

Happy Biirthday!!!!!!!! :king:

Happy Birthday, LB! :king: I hope all is going well for you!

Happy Birthday Shadows! Hope you have a great day!!!!!

OK, now I'm really curious!!!!!

Those are very good points. <looks around nervously for the Echidna..> But, those will be explained. Right now, we know that the Sherrif is non too friendly, and that Steve is roaring towards Piedmont at a hundred fifty mph. (241 KPH for our non-us readers.) With Chris and Chad trying to catch him in a car that can barely do half that. Too bad I'm not into cliches, or he could have been saved with a very convenient flat tire... (he isn't). (I hope the Echidna will spare me for revealing this negative spoiler?) I have always loved irony, so Steve roaring into Piedmont to save Chris, who is actually behind him, appealed to me, especially as Steve was one of my favorite characters. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That made me laugh out loud. Thanks!!! Yes, beware the Reverend Thaddeus J. Emoe.. He's rumored to have eyes everywhere... I can't get into the why's (fear the Echidna!) but I'm curious if anyone had any reaction to Chris desperately trying to beat down the door to escape from the diner? Did a touch of humor (inwards, man) fit in a chase scenes like that, or was it incongruous? I will mention that Shdowgod here is my Beta Reader (anonimously, of course) BUT, he has NOT read far enough ahead to actually know the answers to the theory he proposes. No one has, because I haven't written it yet.

Which, of course, makes YOU the Devil. (was there ever any dount?) I had to do some minor wording tweaks, format it, and get it into eFiction. It's also a workday so I didin't know if I'd be interupted by a client. Oh, BTW, Ch. 10, RACE WITH THE DEVIL is now online.

I think Graeme And Bondwriter both have excelent points. The answer, clearly, is for me to post Ch 10, "Race with the Devil". However, I have no idea exactly when that will be. The only thing I can say for certain is that it will be sometime within the next three hours.

Ahhem!!! I think I see a SPOILER! Two, in fact!! How do we know that Zach thinks he's straight? We know he says he is, but thinks? And something happens to Doug? Spoilers!!!! Oh Graeme.... I think your spines have a new mission.... I do like Zach, and I've known gay-accepting but supposedly straight guys like him. They have a rough road, sort of the worst of both worlds (gay guys often shunned them as closet cases.).

Well done, oh frosty one! That french lesson was superb! That was a very unique and endearing way of leading into what they did! The interruption was hilarious!! However, that noise in the bathroom seems decidedly ominous! My bet is that someone overheard them. I really enjoyed Ben's backstory. It fits very well, and certainly plays into the title. Great chapter!

Whether or not paradox is an issue depends on the nature of the universe. If the multiverse theory (hinted at my some aspects of quantum physics but unproven) is correct, each and every time a sub-atomic particle has a possible state change, it takes every possible path, creating a new universe as it does so. (in quantum theory, there are not pre-determined events, merely probabilities, for quanta under various conditions.) This results in an infinite number of parallel universes. Some nearly identical, others exceedingly different. Based upon that theory, a time traveler would not face paradox; he would merely be shifting to a different universe at a prior state. He could not create paradox by killing his own grandfather, as his "real" grandfather exists only in his originating universe. Even in a linear monouniverse (currently accepted theory), it isn't clear whether the laws of physics allow, or prohibit, the existence of closed time-like curves (which is what a time machine would be creating). I'll note that Closed Timelike Curves (which by their nature violate causality) do often appear amongst the solutions to Einstein's general relativity field equations. My best bet, based on both some experimental results in the field of quantum physics, and Einstein's general relativity, is that closed timelike curves can occur, and thus causality is not inviolate. If so, time travel is a theoretical possibility. And BTW, if Causality is violable, then Paradox is not a problem. I like that. It fits! That's an interesting point about the internet. By it's nature, it's two-way communication. You need to be able to send a page request to view a page. That's why downlink-only internet does not exist (unlike a TV signal, which is true one-way communication)

I'm limited to what I can say here due to spoiler concerns, so I'll be brief. The Brother's reaction surprised me greatly, in a good way. I also like the exploration of the protagonist's feelings of being a little different, and coming to terms with what it meant. Off to a good start.

Ack! I come back from a busy day and what do I find? A Discussion of my sex life! Or, conspiring to put an end to it!~ What is this? Cruelty to Goats week? Oh, the Humanity...

I'm shocked! I had no idea you were gonna send me a pic of a hanging!!!!!!!!

It's warmed up to 18 degrees F here at about noon. I just spend several hours in the crawlspace replacing the busted pipe. It takes forever for the blowtorch to heat the joins enough to sweat (solder) them when everything is below freezing. But, I don't think this will happen again: I re-routed the line to a warmer area (and kicked myself for not putting it there in the first place). I'm just glad that it was so cold, otherwise I'd have been crawling in mud instead of on top of frozen mud and ice. Nope, but I might try tonight. The person below me is wondering why I didn't write a better "Person below me" line.

Nope... The person below me just had a pipe burst due to the cold, and will spend part of tomorrow replacing it.

The kind with no feathers?

Here is a link that is a good "how-too" for hosts file blocking tricks. http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

Current temperature here: 3 degrees at 10 pm, on it's way down to about -4.

My bet: a rubber rat?

I find moving or sound adds annoying. I set my broswer to be unable to display moving GIF's or vids, and I stripped Flash out of it a long time ago, and I also block the more annoying add servers with my hosts file.

Great chapter! Poor Dex. That is a no-win situation, for sure. I hope they can patch things up! In this chapter and others, you capture the patois of southern teens excellently! I love it! Zach sounds like he will be very interesting! I wonder though, is Lori as accepting of Jonah's sexuality as she seems? CJ

Colin, that was one heck of a good review!!!!! You are really good at that! Jacob's ladder... Hmmmm... That's mysterious! Angels ascending to heaven... OMG, you are going to kill someone in the next chapter?!?! Or is Jacob getting a job in roof repair, and thus needs to find a ladder? BTW, I really love Valerie: so strong-willed! CONGRATULATIONS SHDOWGOD, for reaching the century mark! This is the 100th post in this thread!! :2thumbs: