Okay, so this post is out of left field…
I’ve just been reading this week’s New Scientist. For those who don’t know it, it’s a weekly magazine featuring articles on science, all kind of science. I don’t get it every week, but I pick it up when I think an article has something interesting I might be able to twist into fiction and this week the cover story is “What is Time?” Interesting question and one for which there is no good answer at the moment. Plenty of theories which may or may not explain our experience of time passing. The article proposes various quantum theory elements which may explain where the time we experience comes from. Fascinating stuff.
One of the explanations involves the uncertainty inherent in quantum events. It seems our perception of time passing may have something to do with quantum uncertainty and the ‘quantum ignorance’ which results from it. I think it sounds like a good explanation since I’ve been absolutely convinced that today was Saturday since at least lunchtime. It’s nice to know that my uncertainty over the day is just a reflection of the origin of time. I think it’s a superposition thing: it was both Friday and Saturday, until I measured it and the probability equation collapsed.
Witches and Ray-Guns 
You screwed it up by conscious observation. However, you got anything new out soon?
There’s the first of a trilogy, The Iron Princess, coming out mid-May. Then the next Ultrahumans book, Guardian, will be… in a couple of months.
Gimme, gimme … pretty, pretty please.
Who’s got a time machine to catapult us readers to Mid-May?
Everybody has one of those time machines. Admittedly, it might take you a few weeks to get there… 🙂
Damned zombie cats.
If you still were working at your old job you could send the article to your boss as an excuse for not showing up for work.
I am firmly convinced that the universe messes with us just to amuse itself. All other laws are secondary.
For those who are interested in *serious* hard science, there is a series on YouTube called “PBS Space Time” In 15-minute installments they cover everything from Quantum Field Theory to Supermassive Black Holes. Very professionally produced. Disclaimer: Serious Math involved, but up to now I could understand the most things they speak about.