Monday, February 13, 2006

Particle of the Week

The tachyon travels at speeds faster than light. This, of course, is not possible without reversing the direction of the time flow. As a consequence tachyons travel backwards in time. In doing so they violate the rules of cause and effect - the only rules I thought I could trust.
Wrath of Khan is so much better than Search for Spock...

1 comment:

Khmer Rouge said...

I like the "filler" episodes, where some minor crisis is solved very calmly and in good time, like when Larry took advantage of Balki's uncanny knack for picking the winners of football games but then found out that he was just going by which team had the fiercer animal name, and we all learned a good lesson about.......... hey, wait!