The Science in the Fiction

I’m a proponent of observation.

Foundational skill for a writer.

I recently wrote in order to increase manifesting success observe.

So it should have come as no surprise to me that in looking back along my life’s path I saw how life has seemingly conspired to help me in my journey to understand Time.

Yet it does.

By the time I was sitting down to write Ghost in the Mirror I’d experienced enough synchronicities to warrant a book of their own.

In Dreams

I’ve had interesting dreams from early childhood.  By the time I was putting fingers to keyboard they’d broadened in scope and uniqueness.

Prophetic and other varieties of psi dreams had become a regular if sometimes unsettling part of my life.

One dream was so startling I included it in my dream journal.**  

Validation

Imagine my surprise when I saw a key component of what I learned in that dream in a scientific article.

It’s a component I studied in-depth before the idea for the 4th book in The Psi Adventure series book was conceived.

And long before the article came out.

It fit in with my philosophies about the nature of Time so I was excited to include it in the plot.

From New Scientist published May 30, 2024. (link as of October 13, 2024)

In physics, time loops are more properly known as closed time-like curves (CTCs). They first arose in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which says space-time can bend. Hypothetically, if you could curve it enough, it would close in on itself, creating a pathway to the past.

From Ghost In the Mirror

“Time is a lens that is curved.  It is a flat piece of glass – not magnified – not distorted.  You can walk along this curvature and it doesn’t ever appear curved to you, relative to where you’re standing, but you are actually walking at different points along time.  You could walk to the past and to the future if you wanted.  You could also stay still and see that time will eventually curve back in on itself.  At that point you could look through the lens and see yourself – or others – in another time.”

**  This is the dream that drove me to start a dream journal.  It made that much of an impression.  

Even now I try to plumb the depths of the concepts.