7/23/2023 0 Comments Watching clock![]() Doctor Naadri’s interpretation of negative probability is my own fictionalized twist on the idea, grafted with the concept of “anti-time” from TNG: “All Good Things. (This is not to be confused with Stephen Hawking’s “imaginary time” dimension, which is merely a mathematical convenience.) Bars’s work leads to the conclusion that a third dimension of time would result in negative probabilities, a concept considered physically meaningless. The theory that time has more than one dimension is the work of Itzhak Bars, discussed on Bars’s site at and in Chapter 7 of Extra Dimensions in Space and Time by Terning, Bars, and Nekoogar (Springer, 2009), available on Google Books. Physicist David Deutsch’s work in quantum information theory influenced my model of quantum entanglement across timelines and the destruction of incompatible information being the key to such “erasure.” The “Quantum Decoherence” page at (EDIT: the current address is ) also helped me figure out the physics of timeline mergers. This was the key to reconciling a plausible MWI-based temporal theory with Star Trek’s portrayal of timelines being erased or destroyed by time travel. These documents provided the critical revelation that parallel histories, once diverged, are not absolutely forbidden from recombining. Another good, only slightly technical primer is “The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words?” by Max Tegmark (available at ). “The Everett FAQ” at is a thorough, accessible overview of the MWI. The root of my physical model in this book (as well as the model followed in the 2009 Star Trek feature film) is Hugh Everett’s relative state formulation of quantum mechanics, better known as the Many-Worlds Interpretation. I provided these links in the Acknowledgments and Further Reading section of the novel, but here they are in a more convenient form: I would strongly recommend not reading it until one has completed the novel, since many of the notes contain spoilers for things not revealed until later scenes or chapters.Įpisode and short-story titles are in quotes, while film and book titles are italicized.ĪOY - All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook Information about Star Trek novels can be found at the Memory Beta wiki.īe aware that this document contains spoilers for the whole of WTC and for numerous episodes, films, and novels from all Trek series, particularly the Destiny crossover trilogy by David Mack. Readers seeking further information on references to past Trek episodes or movies are advised to consult the Memory Alpha Star Trek wiki. I assume that the reader is familiar with the basic characters and background of the Trek universe. This document explains the continuity references, allusions, in-jokes, and scientific concepts contained in Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock (WTC).
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