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Timelike infinity5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Michael Poole, architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius. For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel, it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax, who are sure to follow them. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs. ![]() Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. sections by an infinite factor ), so we represent timelike infinity by the. In reality, the compactified spacetime cannot be smooth at the particular point i 0 corresponding to spacelike infinity. First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. One cannot find a conformal transformation which makes timelike infinity. The second novel in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence. Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting. ![]()
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