Shawn L. Bird

Yesterday I was listening to CBC as I was coming into the house. The person being interviewed was talking about how science has created significantly smaller unit of time than the nanosecond. He was talking about how a whole other world could co-exist with us in place, but because they were living in a different time, we wouldn’t even notice them. Their world would exist so much more quickly than ours that we would be statues in their midst. Several generations of their lives could pass within a blink of our eye.
It’s not implausible. After all, insects live in a more rapid world than we do. The water cycle is much faster than the rock cycle.
This presents interesting narrative possibilities
Could the beings living in this rapid world be responsible for unexplained phenomena in our world?
Could we be living in someone else’s much slower world? Are those statues on display in museum, really just very slowly living beings?
Hmmmmmmm….