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Post by Wolfie on Aug 24, 2009 3:54:51 GMT -5
In an episode of Stargate SG-1, Daniel Jackson walked through a mirrior and found a different Earth. In that world, the secret of the Stargate, a device that lets anyone walking through it to instantly travel to other worlds via a worm hole, was revealed and everyone was happy to know that the Air Force's Stargate Command had been keeping Earth safe from alien attacks.
I wonder if there could be a Christian sci-fi story with a quantum mirror or some kind of technology similar to it that scientists a hundred years later have created. Perhaps one of the scientists is a Christian and doesn't think it smart for the military to take the mirror and make a base outpost on the alternate world forcing their way to a new land the way or a similar way others such as Christopher Columbus has done before. Perhaps some kind of ethical exploration can be forged with such a sci-fi concept.
Any thoughts?
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Post by torainfor on Aug 24, 2009 12:23:54 GMT -5
How about a mirror that led to the angels guarding the Garden of Eden? And a team of Christian agents guarded the mirror so that countries wouldn't try to break in and take from the Tree of Life? Or it attempts to reach toward heaven and the Christian Scientist is afraid of another Tower of Babel deal?
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Post by myrthman on Aug 26, 2009 13:57:06 GMT -5
I had a dream once in which I entered, via a window on a tall tower of an old castle or hotel, a world made completely out of stained glass. All the plants and buildings and even people were in different colors. I was guided by someone known to me only as the Pope of France (it was a dream, okay?) and there was an enemy that reminded me of one of the three musketeers (at least in costume).
Could such a world be envisioned within a mirror? Or would that just be a knockoff of Wonderland?
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Post by metalikhan on Aug 27, 2009 9:55:05 GMT -5
Myrthman, that sounds so cool!
Was your dream-world two or three (or more) dimensional? The artsy side of my brain tried to imagine what that would look like.
Colorful!
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Post by myrthman on Sept 23, 2009 23:24:59 GMT -5
It was 2-D but with depth. Like a puppet theater for flat, cardboard puppets. Each person or thing was flat, but the place had depth. And colors everywhere. Very cool!
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Post by metalikhan on Sept 24, 2009 0:14:13 GMT -5
Oooo! I love puppet theaters! Almost like the jointed shadow puppets of Bali. How awesome that would be in stained glass!
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Post by Wolfie on Oct 2, 2009 14:55:23 GMT -5
How about a mirror that led to the angels guarding the Garden of Eden? And a team of Christian agents guarded the mirror so that countries wouldn't try to break in and take from the Tree of Life? Or it attempts to reach toward heaven and the Christian Scientist is afraid of another Tower of Babel deal? That doesn't work. It would only be possible for a quantum mirror to link to the Garden of Eden if another quantum mirror was on the other side and the two time periods, unless altered, are too far apart especially since the technology of the quantum mirror is incredibly advanced. The only way this could happen is by a mysterious portal that just opened up as happened in The Army of Darkness, but for what purpose? And a team of Christian agents guarded the mirror so that countries wouldn't try to break in and take from the Tree of Life? This could only work if all interested countries believed in the Tree of Life and the Bible and saw an advantage to controlling the tree and knew how to transport if they saw fit. I personally just don't see any of those three ideas as a compelling story, but that's just my opinion, however, someone may say otherwise and write a story that explores your ideas. I am wanting to write stories that have some basis of realism and logic to it for readers to understand when reading about the huge "what if?" idea; otherwise, the story would be so out there and so confusing that the reader doesn't understand the plot. I faced that problem when I had to read one of Samuel R. Delany's short stories, in which a two characters argued over who made who as if one was the figment of the others' imagination. There was a lot in that story that didn't make sense. I'd rather not write stories that no one can understand rather than write stories they can understand and take something from if they choose to do so. |
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