YOG-SOTHOTH — and the Supernova That Has Not Arrived Yet

FILE 04 — YOG-SOTHOTH. Not a monster. A threshold, and a knowledge of when it opens. This is its file. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open — the almanac 01:32 File designation 01:42 01 — The Record 02:17 The Dunwich Horror 04:08 The passage 06:03 02 — The Nature 06:15 Minkowski, 1908 07:45 Gödel's universe 08:18 Four clocks around the world 10:26 03 — The Contact 10:44 The place of noises 11:34 Feeling the future 12:22 Faster than light 13:17 A party for time travellers 14:04 Refsdal 15:35 04 — The Implication 17:08 Closing — SN Requiem 19:53 Next file SOURCES • Lovecraft, H. P. — "The Dunwich Horror", Weird Tales (April 1929); The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (written 1927; Weird Tales, May and July 1941) • Minkowski, H. — "Raum und Zeit", Cologne, 21 September 1908 (tr. Perrett & Jeffery, The Principle of Relativity, 1923) • Einstein, A. — letter to the family of Michele Besso, 21 March 1955 • Gödel, K. — Reviews of Modern Physics 21, 447 (1949) • Penrose, R. — The Emperor's New Mind (1989) • Hafele, J. C. & Keating, R. E. — Science 177, 166 and 168 (1972) • Ashby, N. — "Relativity and the Global Positioning System", Physics Today 55(5), 41 (2002) • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — "Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time" • Skinner, C. M. — Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896); Ebel, J. E., et al. Geophys. Res. Lett. 9, 397 (1982) • Bem, D. J. — J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 100, 407 (2011); Ritchie, S. J., Wiseman, R. & French, C. C. — PLoS ONE 7, e33423 (2012) • OPERA Collaboration — arXiv:1109.4897 (2011–2012) • Hawking, S. — the reception for time travellers, Gonville and Caius College, 28 June 2009 • Kelly, P. L., et al. — Astrophys. J. Lett. 819, L8 (2016); Science 380, eabh1322 (2023) • Rodney, S. A., et al. — Nature Astronomy 5, 1118 (2021) — SN Requiem • Pierel, J. D. R. (PI) — HST Cycle 33 program 18069, "Requiem's Return" • NASA / ESA / STScI — SN Encore (JWST, November 2023) • Yale Bright Star Catalogue (VizieR V/50); Natural Earth DISCLOSURE Ida Marchant, her family, the farm, the almanac notes and the 1926 watch are original fiction written for this channel. Her note was written to meet SN Requiem: July, '16, three lights close together low in the south before dawn, a fourth in '26. The supernova was far too faint to see with the eye, and this file does not claim she saw it. Every other person, paper, experiment and measurement named in this episode is real. The almanac pages, charts, sky chart and typed cards are drawn plates; the printed calendars are real (weekdays and holidays), the sky chart uses the Yale Bright Star Catalogue and the cluster's published position, and the map uses Natural Earth land data. The narration is synthesized. CREDITS Imagery licensed CC BY: CERN PhotoLab (4.0, an OPERA neutrino event) · NASA, ESA, S. Rodney and the FrontierSN team (4.0, ESA/Hubble) · NASA, ESA and P. Kelly (3.0, ESA/Hubble). All other imagery is public domain or CC0, chiefly Lucius B. Truesdell (Lovecraft, 1934), Weird Tales (April 1929, with Hugh Rankin's heading for The Dunwich Horror; May 1941), the Library of Congress (Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA), the National Archives (Documerica), the Historic American Buildings Survey, the Detroit Publishing Company, Orren Jack Turner, the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Max Klinger, the Rijksmuseum, NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI (Hubble, Webb, SDO, WMAP, GALEX), the USGS, the US Space Force, the US Air Force and the National Park Service. Plates use Natural Earth land data and the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. #cosmichorror #lovecraft #yogsothoth