Kindred of Old Podcast

Time feels universal, but the speed of light—fixed at about 300,000 km/s—forces a startling conclusion: if light’s speed can’t “add” to a moving train the way a thrown tennis ball does, then time itself must flex. In this episode, we explore that simple contradiction to the reality of personal time —time differences too small to notice in daily life, yet confirmed by atomic clocks, particle accelerators, and even GPS—and we unpack the famous twin scenario to show why it isn’t a paradox once you drop the idea of one universal clock. Finally, we explore the bigger...

Duration: 00:13:04

Time feels universal, but the speed of light—fixed at about 300,000 km/s—forces a startling conclusion: if light’s speed can’t “add” to a moving train the way a thrown tennis ball does, then time itself must flex. In this episode, we explore that simple contradiction to the reality of personal time —time differences too small to notice in daily life, yet confirmed by atomic clocks, particle accelerators, and even GPS—and we unpack the famous twin scenario to show why it isn’t a paradox once you drop the idea of one universal clock. Finally, we explore the bigger...

Duration: 00:13:04

Time feels universal, but the speed of light—fixed at about 300,000 km/s—forces a startling conclusion: if light’s speed can’t “add” to a moving train the way a thrown tennis ball does, then time itself must flex. In this episode, we explore that simple contradiction to the reality of personal time —time differences too small to notice in daily life, yet confirmed by atomic clocks, particle accelerators, and even GPS—and we unpack the famous twin scenario to show why it isn’t a paradox once you drop the idea of one universal clock. Finally, we explore the bigger...

Duration: 00:13:04

This Deep Dive discusses a science fiction short story, set in the Kindred-of-Old universe, following a young woman named TaaRell as she embarks on a traditional rite of passage into adulthood. Leaving her village to wander the vast, three-mooned desert, she relies on a spiritual connection to MoTHer and a unique mental sense to survive. Her journey takes a dark turn when she discovers the mysterious ruins of an ancient, advanced civilisation that emit a lethal, invisible silence. After falling critically ill from radiation poisoning, she is rescued by a technologically superior community known as a Heptaton. Her rescuers reveal that th...

Duration: 00:11:02