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What kind of scientific discovery might make such an incomprehensibly long daily commute from Earth possible? Bing Copilot answers:
Ah, “A Long Commute”—the title alone feels like a wink at cosmic absurdity. That sleek car streaking across a desolate alien highway beneath a sky of planetary grandeur suggests a daily grind that spans star systems. To make such a commute scientifically plausible, we’d need breakthroughs that border on the mythic. But let’s riff on a few that could anchor your scene in speculative realism:
1. Stable Wormhole Engineering
•Concept: Einstein-Rosen bridges—wormholes—could connect distant points in spacetime.
•Breakthrough Needed: A method to stabilize and enlarge wormholes using exotic matter with negative energy density.
•Narrative Flavor: The highway itself could be a physical manifestation of a stabilized wormhole—an interstellar autobahn maintained by a cosmic transit authority.
2. Localized Time Dilation Control
•Concept: Manipulating time via relativistic effects or artificial gravity wells.
•Breakthrough Needed: A way to compress subjective time for the traveler while keeping Earth-time in sync.
•Narrative Flavor: The car’s propulsion system might generate a “commute bubble,” where hours pass in seconds—like a temporal espresso shot.
3. Quantum Entangled Transit Nodes
•Concept: Using quantum entanglement to instantaneously transmit matter or consciousness.
•Breakthrough Needed: A scalable method for entangling macroscopic objects and reassembling them remotely.
•Narrative Flavor: The car isn’t moving at all—it’s a ritual interface. The real journey happens in quantum space, and the vehicle is just the anchor for the rider’s continuity.
4. Dark Energy Surfing
•Concept: Harnessing the repulsive force of dark energy to accelerate across vast distances.
•Breakthrough Needed: A propulsion system that can “ride” the expansion of the universe like a surfer on a cosmic wave.
•Narrative Flavor: The glowing blue trails are the wake of spacetime being stretched behind the vehicle—each commute subtly reshaping the universe.
5. Consciousness Commuting
•Concept: The body stays on Earth, but the mind is projected into a synthetic avatar light-years away.
•Breakthrough Needed: A neural uplink that transmits consciousness across space with zero latency.
•Narrative Flavor: The car is a metaphor—a visual representation of the mind’s journey. The real commute is psychic, and the landscape is a shared dreamspace.
Want to explore how the emotional toll of such a commute might manifest—fatigue, longing, or the quiet absurdity of cosmic routine? Or maybe we lean into the humor: intergalactic traffic jams, roadside diners orbiting Saturn, or a commuter loyalty program that spans dimensions. How would interstellar traffic laws work? What are some real theories about wormholes?
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Not many people on a train on Saturday morning at 5am, except me and this guy, who was enjoying his paper. Inspired by the street scenes of Brandon Harris
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The rainy morning commute. Taken through the car window (no, I wasn't driving!).
The Galata Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
The sign to the right HOTEL HOTEL is where we were staying. Up two flights of stairs. I never an elevator in Guatemala. They haven't been invented yet. Right there along with hot water. Now if the temp was 95 or better in the morning I'd be happy with cold water showers, but when it's 50 and the breeze is blowing in off the lake thru the open windows !!!!!
Notice the banner hanging across the road a bit down the street? See the red square with the white slash thru it? Some of my friends out there know what this means! In WARMER climates it means FUN FUN FUN !! Diving. Though the lake here was pretty to look at, I don't think I want to get in. If it's 50 out here in the morning, what is it "down" there? Kerry doesn't do below 84 without a wet suit and Kerry hates to wear a wet suit. Kerry loves truly tropical waters in the mid to upper 80's. Yeah !!!!
Gee, back home a shower of 84 would feel cool, but it sure would have felt warm here this morning !!! And never mind the sewage run off into the lake - I'm sure it just makes the fish or what ever is down there grow bigger !!!! It's a typical third world country, here the ladies are washing their clothes, there the kids are swimming, and that great big pipe running down the hill and under the water is not international cable !!!
As has been the habit of humans for centuries, the big pit of water is a great garbage pit. And you wonder why God is mad at you and tossing back more and more natural disasters?
Commuting is an exciting, dangerous passtime, like an extreme sport but without the glamour. One of the few advantages of working shifts is a clear drive home.
Entering the frame from the right is NM Route 68, the fastest route between Taos and Espanola, with Santa Fe beyond. At this time of the morning on a weekday, there was a lot of what looked like commuter traffic, with folks in a hurry stacking up behind slower drivers (like me). I wonder if I had this as a morning commute, how long would it be before I'd start taking it for granted?
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Summer 2018 4th leg: We split up for a week. Kani went to tropical Pittsburgh to help her sister, I got out early every day.
June 29: Leaving the Gorge, for now.