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- From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
- Subject: Re: Comment on MH
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:50:12 GMT
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- tlahdeoj@lesti.hut.fi (Tuomas L{hdeoja) blithers freely:
- >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 ;-)
-
- SSSHHHH... nobody else has noticed! :)
-
- >>>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*
-
- Hell, this all sounds perfectly reasonable, Tuomas. We should write
- this all up, add some maths to support our conclusions and send it
- in to Nature... it'd be at least as good as everyone else's theories! :)
-
- We could call it, "A Sane Method of Destroying The Universe." :)
-
- Martin
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