De Vermis Mysteriis

"Mysteries of the Worm". 'S a Cthulhu Mythos tome created by Robert Bloch.

Anyhoo. Decided to make my space-folds more definitively wormhole-like. Nice thing is, I now know what they look like: they look like an event horizon surrounded by gravitational lensing. Yeah, much like the black kind, worm "holes" don't much look like a hole, except as seen against a background. Remember, they're warping at least four and probably several more dimensions; the mouth of a 3d tube is a circle, but the mouth of a 4+d one is, at least in 3d space, a sphere.

Now, ordinarily, again, FTL (where instantaneous velocity never exceeds c) causing time travel is baloney. Einstein had silly ideas due to getting his philosophy from a Sephardic glass-blower; in the EPR paradox, he also conflated logical deduction with the transmission of data. Both relativity and quantum mechanics, or rather the typical scientist's interpretations of them, have served to lock science up inside the head of the observer, where all the rest of thought had been locked up since Kant, and probably Descartes.

If I go to someplace 20 light-years away, and it takes five minutes for my FTL drive to work, then for me, five minutes have passed. From the standpoint of the place I left, sure, I seem to have arrived 20 years (or 19 years, 365 days, 5 hours, and 55 minutes—remember, a Julian year is 365.25 days, and five minutes have elapsed) before I left, but that's, again, an optical illusion. As well say that an "Einstein's cross" gravitational lens causes there to be four quasars.

Things do, admittedly, get slightly more complex when wormholes are concerned; the idea that they involve time travel is not based solely on that "our observations not only represent, but are identical with, reality" bullshit. Wormholes involve looping space-time in on itself; they can, in principle, be used to go back in time. However, for my purposes, that's not relevant, since apparently they can't go back to before their own creation (or before the first time they were modified to serve as a time-warp) and my space-fold wormholes are extremely short-lived.