What Time Is It When You Try to Pass Through “A Wrinkle in Time”?

https://daily.jstor.org/what-time-wrinkle-in-time/

by samclemens • 9 years ago

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jsjohnst• 9 years ago

One of my favorite fiction book series as a kid.

zafka• 9 years ago

I still fondly remember this book, along with "Stranger from the Depths" as two of the best books I read as a kid.

pmoriarty• 9 years ago

I loved A Wrinkle in Time and my other favorite was A Wizard of Earthsea, which I remember randomly finding in a dusty attic in a summer school when I was 11 years old. Talk about magic.

hateful• 9 years ago

One of my favorites also.

DinosaurArms• 9 years ago

It was on a top 100 list a few years back that I started working my way through. I really disliked the book having not read or even heard of it as a kid. It seems that it is generally well liked, so I'm not sure what didn't connect with me.

brianberns2• 9 years ago

This was one of my favorite books growing up, but the linked article is iffy at best. Author doesn't understand the difference between quantum mechanics and general relativity, which should be a nonstarter on HN. Would love to have a better article as a starting point for discussion of this book here.

throwaway91111• 9 years ago

I don't even think quantum mechanics come into play at the mitochondrial level in Wind In The Door.

brianberns2• 9 years ago

I agree.

I think there is a scene in Wrinkle where Meg uses the fact that atoms are mostly empty space to pass through a solid wall. However, this is really more of a classical view of atomic structure (atoms as hollow balls), rather than QM.

ktRolster• 9 years ago

Good article. I have to say, after reading it, I still don't understand the difference between chronos and kairos

dwringer2• 9 years ago

I feel the same way you do about how the article explained the concepts. I found what seems like a fuller explanation of a conceptualization of Kairos here [1] - even if it may not be the most transparent:

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01253421

dreamcompiler• 9 years ago

The description of kairos in the article reminded me of what's now commonly called a flow state. Not sure if it's exactly the same idea or not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

dwringer2• 9 years ago

I think the concept of "flow" as it relates to Kairos is best described by the classic song, "Row, row, row your boat".

randcraw• 9 years ago

It seems like kairos is like Csikszentmihalyi's flow. It's time that passes while you are engaged, active, purposeful -- living rather than waiting.

Perhaps without a willing participant, there can be no kairos; there is only chronos?

Great book, BTW. The most memorable from my childhood.

JohnJamesRambo• 9 years ago

This book had such a profound influence on my life and young mind. It basically formed a lot of the values I have and ideas about what is right and what is wrong.

What Time Is It When You Try to Pass Through “A Wrinkle in Time”?

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