Art and Science of Time Crystal

Wyken Seagrave talks about the pleasures and pains of inventing, developing, writing and podcasting of Time Crystal, the greatest adventure in the history of the Universe. He also explores the science behind the story, explaining which bits are invented and which bits are hard science.

TimeCrystalArtScience1-26 02/06/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-26 Wyken reviews the science of Volume 1 and discusses the transition to Volume 2, which will commence on Feb 10. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/690331

TimeCrystalArtScience1-25 01/30/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-25 Wyken talks about preparing a new Podiobooks volume and continues his explanation of negative energy strings by describing wormholes. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/687606

TimeCrystalArtScience1-24 01/22/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-24 Wyken examines how Episode 24 of Time Crystal evolved during the recording of the podcast. In the science section he continues with his examination of negative energy strings. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/678194

TimeCrystalArtScience1-23 01/15/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-23 Wyken talks about what Cjingha means by ‘negative energy’ and talks about his new format for Time Crystal Volume 1. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/673062

TimeCrystalArtScience1-22 01/08/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-22 Wyken examines the book market and explores some of the problems facing an author-publisher attempting to sell books. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/671719

TimeCrystalArtScience1-21 01/01/2010

TimeCrystalArtScience1-21 Wyken explains some strange music, discusses more re-organisation of the plot, announces a translation website and a new Time Crystal Store. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/670016

TimeCrystalArtScience1-20 12/23/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-20 Wyken expands episode 20 during the podcast editing process, does the ironing, watches Harry Potter and thinks about re-organising his own plot. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/669043

TimeCrystalArtScience1-19 12/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-19 Wyken describes how he uses photographs to help him research the visual appearance of scenes in Time Crystal, such as George and Alex landing at Malvoisin and flying down to Entrement. On the way he discovers some fascinating history which might help him in future episodes. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/668165

TimeCrystalArtScience1-18 12/11/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-18 Wyken talks about the new Newsletter, the software and the ideas which arose from it. He also discusses l’Etranger by Albert Camus. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/667214

TimeCrystalArtScience1-17 12/05/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-17 Wyken discusses finding the character’s voice, literally. In this case it is Sofie Dialektaki. He also announces a new newsletter and explains what will happen to profits from the sale of Volume 1. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/666154

TimeCrystalArtScience1-16 11/28/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-16 Wyken talks about the joys and pains (literally!) of using audio editing software to produce podcasts, with especial reference to producing alien voices. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/664560

TimeCrystalArtScience1-15 11/21/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-15 Wyken talks about Episode 15, the way the song was written and then he ponders on the following remark from Catriona: /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/663344

TimeCrystalArtScience1-14 11/14/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-14 Wyken reports on what he has learned about public relations and how it relates to the things he is already doing. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/653622

TimeCrystalArtScience1-13 11/08/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-13 Wyken explores how to promote his work and also gives an update on the start of the LHC at CERN. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/652410

TimeCrystalArtScience1-12 11/01/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-12 Wyken explains the various graphical methods he has used over the years to plot out scenes. This podcast is supplemented by a video and images on www.timecrystal.co.uk/blog /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/651152

TimeCrystalArtScience1-11 10/24/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-11 Wyken discusses how to write a scene, exploring the point of view character and whether to use the top-down or bottom-up method. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/648908

TimeCrystalArtScience1-10 10/17/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-10 Wyken replays his interview with Rhonda Carpenter which was first broadcast on PodioRacket on October 8, 2009. You can get more of their broadcasts and listen to them live at www.podioracket.com. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/648015

TimeCrystalArtScience1-09 10/11/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-09 Wyken continues his investigation of black holes by considering how quantum mechanics affects them, then he takes you on a journey into a black hole. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/646668

TimeCrystalArtScience1-08 10/04/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-08 In an attempt to find out whether Sam could really have been swallowed by the black, Wyken investigates the general theory of relativity and its predictions about black holes. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/645499

TimeCrystalArtScience1-07 09/25/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-07 Wyken talks about the difficulties of not having an editor and makes listeners an offer they cannot refuse in exchange for a little feedback. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/644499

TimeCrystalArtScience1-06 09/19/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-06 Wyken Seagrave explores the mechanism by which the black hole causes the emergency stairs to collapse. This requires some knowledge of magnets and superconductors, helium cooling and quenches. It turns out Wyken’s idea of using quenches was a good one, since the LHC had a quench within a week of first starting up. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643689

TimeCrystalArtScience1-05 09/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-05 Wyken talks about CERN and the LHC and how scientists have assessed the risks associated with generating black holes and other novel particles. Mostly they rely on the evidence of cosmic rays but have never considered the possibility that a cosmic monopole might be trapped inside the beam pipe. So, he argues, there is an unassessed risk here. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643525

TimeCrystalArtScience1-04 09/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-04 Wyken explains the origin of the cosmic monopole. Do they exist and if so is it feasible that one might get trapped inside ATLAS? /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643523

TimeCrystalArtScience1-03 09/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-03 Wyken talks about the characters in Time Crystal, how they were created and his problems in doing this and how he finally solved the problem. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643522

TimeCrystalArtScience1-02 09/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-02 Wyken talks about the many origins of the scenario for Time Crystal, explaining how he arrived at the final form of the story over a period of several years of research, but avoiding an spoilers! /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643521

TimeCrystalArtScience1-01 09/18/2009

TimeCrystalArtScience1-01 Wyken talks about why he is writing Time Crystal and trying to tell the history of the Universe as a work of fiction. He also gives some insight into why he is creating the Art and Science podcasts. /episode/index/show/timecrystalartsci/id/643520

Art and Science of Time Crystal

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