Since his "accident," Carlton Farthington has spoken entirely with the aid of a text-to-speech reader. These excerpts were recently delivered as "speeches" to Cape Fear Community College students at the Union Station auditorium. Go Sea Devils!
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We are bits of matter hurtling through the blank "what-ness" (I use Foucault's term) of time. We know that the universe is expanding in every conceivable direction: left, right, forward, backward, up, down, and everything in between. We do not, however, have the ability to move "forth and back" on the continuum of time. We move "forward" in time, but we are deprived of the experience of going "backward" in time. Thus, potential energy can be converted into kinetic energy, but the resultant kinetic energy will not, of its own accord, convert itself back into the potential state.
Think of the dimensionless kernel that was our universe back before the big bang. Infinitesimal as it was, it nonetheless possessed a vast amount of potential energy, implying that it must have at one point existed as a far-flung diaspora of kinetically energetic matter, snapped back, as it were, from the outer edges of time. I am convinced that this expansion/contraction has occurred an infinite number of times, and that time is therefore itself expanding (and most probably contracting) along the continuum of yet another, unknown dimension. Suffice it to say that when the tide of matter begins receding from the shoreline of time, we will witness a complete reversal of inertial law.
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