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- From: tlahdeoj@lesti.hut.fi (Tuomas L{hdeoja)
- Subject: Re: Comment on MH
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:36:55 GMT
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- In <martin.727472687@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
-
-
- >Well, no, not really... the earth was *NOT* demolished as such.
- >It simply "resolves itself out of existence". The turrets are a ruse.
- >Read MH again... there is no *event* for there to be a before or
- >an after. Earth was simply erased from all possibility. In the
- >example you give above: no, the signal does not stay in that
- >universe/time because IT WAS NEVER SENT! How could it be sent
- >from an Earth which never existed?
-
- Well... I hate to admit thay you are right... In Life, the Universe etc.
- it says that timeflow does _not_ divide into multiple flows when someone
- does something. ie. if you come from year 1000 and destroy something in
- year 0 there will never be year 1000 (nor will there be you). This
- nature of time complicates all this a bit, but one thing is sure. There
- is only one time-axis and going to near enough of it's start you can
- demolish something (for ex. earth) for good. And there will the be no
- radio signals or digital watches.
-
- Another problem comes from the different positions of the earth on the
- probability axis. Which was why the guide II was there.
-
- >>A different thing is that if you could bring ALL the earths in ALL the times/
- >>universes/etc into ONE point in Space-time-probability-possibility. So that
- >>they would really overlap and then destroy all the infinite (really INfinite)
- >>number of earths _simultaneously_ there wouls be no earth anymore. Ever. Any-
- >>where.
-
- >Well, this is a bit more like it... but remember we are not dealing with
- >traditional parallel universes as such... DA uses the WSOGMM instead.
-
- The WSOGMM has one significant advantage over "normal parallel universes".
- That is that there is only one-dimensional time (and probably) probability
- spaces or axises. Not multidimensional time "axis" as in "normal" parallel
- universes. Two different one-dimensional problems are usuallally easier
- to cope with than one multidimensional one. Ie. destroying all the earths
- in WSOGMM is easier than destroying all of them in "normal" parallel-universe
- system. The difference is something like destroying one point in several
- low-dimensional (<3) spaces and destroying one point in one mindbogglingly
- multidimensional space. Locating the points in several spacecs is more
- difficult than locating one point in multi-D space. Actually it's quite
- more much complicated...
-
- >Feel free to blither now.
-
- I'm avoiding it by inventing sufficently smart remarks to keep the actual
- problem unnoticed ;-)
-
- >>This can also (and with much less effort) be done by cancelling the Big Bang.
- >>Because there is only one big bang and after a time dt - which is pretty
- >>little more than nothing - an infinite number of parts of BB that would become
- >>earth(s).
-
- >Er... much less effort? And by cancelling the BB you would be cancelling
- >not only our beloved Galaxy but the whole Universe as well.
-
- Yep. Destroying something in _one_ point of _one_ time-space is quite much
- easier than destroying probablyinfinite number of points of time in each of
- the infinite number of time-spacecs. *blither*
-
- >Isn't
- >that a bit drastic just to kill off a few characters in a fiction novel? :)
-
- The point was not drasticity, was it ;-) (And THAT, at least would be the
- gude to end all guides ;-))
-
- >>Probably. Or not.
-
- >Yes, of course that's only MHO.
-
- As mine, too ;-)
-
- >Martin
-
- /tube
- - As someone said... All of my opinions are subject to change
- without notice.
-
- --
- Sex is like music; basically physics, but skills in physics
- won't help you with it.
- So long and thanks for all the typos !!!!
- Tuomas Lahdeoja / tlahdeoj@vipunen.hut.fi / Korkeavuorenkatu 24 a 9 00130 Hki
-