response to time travel
I loved the project on time travel in London. It reminded me of a project last year where I did a much more toned down version of this sort of analysis. We were working on a redesign of Lake Sarita on the St Paul Campus. I proposed that the lake be integrated into agricultural sciences curriculum. In order to prove the ease of connection between the ag buildings on campus and the lake, I measured the amount of time it takes to walk between each ag related building and the lake (it's really more of a wetland). Showing that it only takes 8 minutes to walk to the lake from most of the ag buildings helped me build my argument for using the lake as an educational tool.
Time is money. Time is stress. Maybe we can try to make it stand still in this third project.... so we can all take a breather. Maybe like Evie Garland on that show in the late '80s and '90s (was it called out of this world?) we could clap our hands and make time stand still. Or like Ray Bradbury and his several essays and books that relate to time travel, we could actually travel in time to relax. If I were to create a time machine, it would be for relaxation, not manipuation of the past. If we developed a time machine, we could sell vacations to people, like in Total Recall. Maybe Total Recall had it right- virtual travel is easier than time travel. Maybe it is impossible to travel in time without messing things up. I realize this doesn't relate to mapping time and movement, but maybe it does. Just in the way that maps manipulate the physical understanding and even realities of our world, couldn't a time based map manipulate how we experience time in space?