Time traveling flatlanders
Disclaimer: This toy story is not an endorsement of buddist, hindi wheels of time (such as Bhavacakra and Kalachakra) or other religious beliefs in circular time. I’m not a religious person and know next to nothing about different religions beliefs of time. Nor should this toy story be seen as an scientific attempt to describe time and space in our 3D (plus time) world. It should not even be seen as a model, it should more accurately be seen as a hybrid of the films Toy Story and Star Trek (the flatlanders can teleport themself just as in Star Trek 🙂 ). But I do think that the story might help readers that have a hard time understanding time dilation (that occur when something travels close to the speed of light or are close to a black hole) get an intuitive grasp. With that said, let the story begin Time traveling flatlanders Underlying the flatland lies a spinning wheel of time. The flatlanders can’t see the time wheel since they can’t look up or down. There is a black h...