Galen T. Pickett : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Galen T. Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at Cal State Long Beach since 1999. He lives in the greater LA area with his spouse, four grown children, and several canines. His writing is inspired by the grandeur of the physical world and the absurdity of the academic world, in nearly equal measure.

Galen T. Pickett has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

Of Time and Travel

NON-FICTION by Galen T. Pickett in Issue 188 – May 2022

A fundamental consequence of Einstein’s Special Relativity is that no physical object can travel faster than light. A somewhat lesser-known consequence of this fact is a counterfactual. Any physical object (like a starship) traveling faster than light will break causality in exactly the same way a “time machine” would. That is, faster-than-light travel and time […]

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Galen T. Pickett

Of Time and Travel