The Office: I missed my chance

The cast and writers of “The Office,” which shoots in Van Nuys, Calif., are going to be in the real Scranton, Pa., in about two weeks to attend a convention dedicated to the not-quite-three-year-old series.

This is the universe mocking me.

But this raised my spirits:

In other “Office” news, Joss Whedon, who directed the Ryan’s business school/Pam’s art exhibit/Dwight’s vampire bat episode last season, will return to helm this season’s 10th half hour. “Jim kills Pam, which I thought was weird," Whedon tells TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello.

Grant Morrison shows us the way: everyone meet hypertime

I have a good feeling about this, actually. This actually validates a lot of what I've been pondering as late, albeit from an armchair/oxygen-deprived/lowest common denominator perspective....

A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year.

Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three dimensions of space and one of time. Instead, the physicist envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a six dimensionals, with four of space and two of time.

"There isn't just one dimension of time," Itzhak Bars of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles tells New Scientist. "There are two. One whole dimension of time and another of space have until now gone entirely unnoticed by us."

Bars claims his theory of "two time physics", which he has developed over more than a decade, can help solve problems with current theories of the cosmos and, crucially, has true predictive power that can be tested in a forthcoming particle physics experiment.

If it is confirmed, it could point the way to a "theory of everything" that unites all the physical laws of the universe into one, notably general relativity that governs gravity and the large scale structure of the universe, and quantum theory that rules the subatomic world....