Paul Laffoley, Geochronmechane_ The Time Machine from the Earth, 1990

1990

Medium

Serigraph in Acrylic, lettering, ink with corrections by the artist in colored pencil on acid-free rag

Dimensions

32 × 32 cm

Edition

No. 26 of an Edition of 75

Status

For Sale

Price

On request

Collect24 Art ID

C24-986177

Subject_ The Third Design Phase of The Time Machine. Symbol Evocation_ The Chronon equals one billionth of the first instant of time at the birth of the physical universe. Besides containing all the quantitative aspects of time, that is, the measurement of duration, The Chronon also exhibits the qualitative aspects of time, such as the experience of duration [proto-consciousness], or the fundamental connection between time, fate and free will. Comments_ It is now just five years before the centennial celebrations of the 1895 publication of the famous novel by H.G. Wells – The Time Machine. The subject matter of science fiction has long been recognized – I would venture a guess since the genre first attained popularity – as a fruitful source of ad hoc research and development by certain individuals like the Wright Brothers or Hugo Gernsback. It was not until the mid 1950’s [the period of the beginning of the maturity of our vision of technology – mechanical, electronic and psychological] that this recognition became widespread and socially obvious. This phenomenon has had such an impact on the writing of science fiction, that current science fiction seems little more that a slight spin on present conditions, and no longer the backbone of futurology. The concept of The Time Machine has remained, however, immune to such historical and technological acculturation – in short The Time Machine has been considered by its nature impossible and absurd. Given the standard litany of paradoxes that are thrown at the concept of time travel which deal with a potential verses a deterministic vision of time, the concrete frame of reference provides a natural limit on all information exchange throughout the physical universe. Some frames of reference can be subsumes by others, such as all the earth-surface energy systems and their framed of referenced are responsive to the entire frame of reference of the Earth, but not to those beyond the Earth. The Earth in total reacts to larger frames of reference. Information that is precoged or retrocoged on the Earth cannot by my definitions appear deterministic beyond the limit of the Earth. Near the surface of the Earth where we live other framed of reference and their measurable limits come into play. If the concepts of space and time are relative as Einstein has postulated, so must be the concepts of the potential and the deterministic when used to apply to a physical context. It is said that if the time machine really existed, we would already know of it. I say it has always been here, and we are beginning to become aware of it.