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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><a href="https://me.dm/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: Many <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Worldlets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldlets</span></a>? </p><p>or in other words, fractions of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a>, not the whole World. <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTraveler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTraveler</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> often involve splitting or multiplying <a href="https://me.dm/tags/universes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universes</span></a> … But if we think this through further, its scope might not be quite so universal as it is typically presented … </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://aus.social/@KronoMoon_TotalLunarEclipse/114462733797499137" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aus.social/@KronoMoon_TotalLun</span><span class="invisible">arEclipse/114462733797499137</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kronodon</span></a></p>
Krononaut Moon 🌕 2025 Sep 07<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThoughtExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiment</span></a>: Many <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Worldlets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Worldlets</span></a>? </p><p>or in other words, fractions of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>World</span></a>, not the whole World. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTraveler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTraveler</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/theories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theories</span></a> often involve splitting or multiplying <a href="https://aus.social/tags/universes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universes</span></a>. Time Travel events divide <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacetime</span></a> into two near-identical clones. Grandfather lived or did not, you did not meet yourself or you did. But if we think this through further, its scope might not be quite so universal as typically presented. </p><p>Take 3 heavenly bodies: Mother <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a>, the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AlphaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlphaCentauri</span></a> triple star system (at 4+ light years away), and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Polaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polaris</span></a>, the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NorthStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthStar</span></a> (at 400+ light years away). </p><p>Now we program our <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeMachine</span></a> to take us back one year (<a href="https://aus.social/tags/retrograde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrograde</span></a>) where we meet ourselves. Hi selves! This all takes place in one year. There's the original us, there's us leaving the present, and there's us meeting our past/original selves a year earlier — standard <a href="https://aus.social/tags/boilerplate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boilerplate</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/script" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>script</span></a>. </p><p>Alpha Centauri will have to wait another 3 years before any of this information can get to there. This is related to the concept of a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/lightcone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lightcone</span></a> which expands at the speed of light. This doesn't sound quite so much like birthing a twin universe, does it? Now what about the North Star? It will have to wait 433 years for news of our Time Travel event(s). And that's still pretty much in our tiny <a href="https://aus.social/tags/celestial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>celestial</span></a> neighborhood. </p><p>The point is that the effects of such events are largely localized and rapidly diluted as we move farther away. This still has its paradoxical problems, but it doesn't quite feel like the whole universe dividing into two — maybe part of it (a universelet? a subuniverse?) Possibilities are that in moving further out in space-time, the effects of a Time Travel incident may be 'blurred out', as are anomalous numerical samples in the law of large <a href="https://aus.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>numbers</span></a>. If one pours a cup of coffee into a lake, it doesn't change the color of the lake. There is a brief chaotic <a href="https://aus.social/tags/glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glitch</span></a> before it is no longer measurable. </p><p>It is tempting to imagine space-time as "stitching" itself back together. (Glitch &amp; stitch?) Such speculations are related to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StephenHawking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenHawking</span></a>'s "chronology protection conjecture" of 1992. And along with <a href="https://aus.social/tags/blackholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackholes</span></a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/entanglement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entanglement</span></a>, and other <a href="https://aus.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a> phenomena, if Time Travel is possible, then we should be looking for it at every scale. We could be surrounded by time-traveling particles everywhere all the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Time</span></a>. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds</span><span class="invisible">_interpretation</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ManyWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManyWorlds</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox#Consistency_paradox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_pa</span><span class="invisible">radox#Consistency_paradox</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrandfatherParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandfatherParadox</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LightCone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LightCone</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel</span><span class="invisible">#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravelTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTheory</span></a> <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_larg</span><span class="invisible">e_numbers</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LawOfLargeNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfLargeNumbers</span></a><br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_protection_conjecture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_</span><span class="invisible">protection_conjecture</span></a> … <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChronologyProtectionConjecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChronologyProtectionConjecture</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GlitchInTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchInTime</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Toot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toot</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://me.dm/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> from a year ago, 2024 Jan 26, under January's <a href="https://me.dm/tags/WolfMoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WolfMoon</span></a>. A <a href="https://me.dm/tags/selfie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfie</span></a> with the <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a> in the same picture is called a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Moonsie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moonsie</span></a>. (<a href="https://me.dm/tags/Moonsies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moonsies</span></a> can also include <a href="https://me.dm/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a>, <a href="https://me.dm/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a>, your <a href="https://me.dm/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a>, your <a href="https://me.dm/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>, whatever you like. They often take a little extra fiddling because of the distances.)</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://me.dm/@KronoMoon/111825483807546187" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">me.dm/@KronoMoon/1118254838075</span><span class="invisible">46187</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Time</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Tuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tuesday</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
Touk<p>it's <a href="https://smores.town/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a></p>
EyeInHand<p>From dirt, jewels. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a><br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RuralSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuralSouth</span></a></p>
EyeInHand<p>Hoping for snow in January. <br>I can feel it. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TimeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelTuesday</span></a><br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RuralSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuralSouth</span></a></p>
Costume-Con 39 in San Jose<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/timeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timeTravelTuesday</span></a> Artemis Leonis Bekiares, WAC : Nell Bekiares : CC34, 2016, Madison, WI, USA : Historical Masquerade <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cosplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosplay</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bestInClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestInClass</span></a></p><p>from the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CostumeCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CostumeCon</span></a> Archives <a href="https://buff.ly/3PKpIWw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3PKpIWw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>©2016 Scott Johnson, <a href="https://buff.ly/3vR6mIf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3vR6mIf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Costume-Con 39 in San Jose<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/timeTravelTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timeTravelTuesday</span></a> Warning : Cathy Swope, Tricia Overcamp &amp; Steve Swope : CC25, 2007, St. Louis, MO, USA : Historical Masquerade <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cosplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosplay</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bestInShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestInShow</span></a></p><p>from the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CostumeCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CostumeCon</span></a> Archives <a href="https://buff.ly/3OdtgzC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3OdtgzC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>©2007 Kerry Gilley</p>