The
Mr. Nile Experiment
3: Consider The Ball |
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Imaginary
of Suburbia writes:
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Do
not fear, Imaginary, for I think you have been mislead.
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I
don't want to kill your reality.
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(Well,
not yet, anyway.)
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No,
right now, it's my reality I'm interested in.
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Consider
then, this comic. Consider these words.
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Now
consider these words.
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Did
you spot it?
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Yes, that's right. Time passed.
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There
it went again.
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Scott
McCloud has suggested that comics can be thought of as a temporal
map.
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Scott
McCloud
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The
flow of panels down the screen in your reality act as a record of
the flow of time in mine.
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TIME
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Now.
Consider the ball.
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the ball requires the Flash 6 plug-in. A quick download from here.) |
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From
your point of view, the ball in the panel above appears to be bouncing.
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But
remember, the panel containing the animated ball occupies only a
single point on the page.
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It
represents a single moment in the temporal map of the comic. A single
moment in the flow of time within my reality.
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What
I saw when I looked at the bouncing ball, was something like this: |
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From
my point of view, every instance of the ball's path through space
existed simultaneously in a single point of time.
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Interesting,
yes?
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Come
back tomorrow and I'll show you how these ideas can be employed
in the torture of a well know world leader.
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