Aberedw Castle
In my “After Cilmeri” series, Aberedw Castle is in the hands of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, when the Normans take it in Prince of Time. David and Ieuan are held there until Bronwen and Lili devise their escape. The Aberedw castle depicted in the video appears to be the second, later one, after a search of the internet. As it is, it is a spectacular ruin of stone masonry and far larger than many of the castles we’ve seen that have been built on mottes. One story of the end of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd has him spending his last night here. Aberedw is on the eastern side of the Usk and 10 miles east of Cilmeri, so the other story that he stayed at Abbey Cwm Hir feels more accurate to me, but there is no definitive proof one way or Read more…
Could Time Travel Happen?
We are all time travelers of course–we travel through time every millisecond of our lives. It’s just we only move in one direction, into the future. Conceptually, time travel into the future and into the past are two distinct concepts. Traveling into the future could happen merely by slowing down your own time, rather than popping in and out of the future like in Primeval. “If you want to advance through the years a little faster than the next person, you’ll need to exploit space-time. Global positioning satellites pull this off every day, accruing an extra third-of-a-billionth of a second daily. Time passes faster in orbit, because satellites are farther away from the mass of the Earth. Down here on the surface, the planet’s mass drags on time and slows it down in small measures. We call this effect gravitational time dilation. According to Read more…
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