Re: "The Wheels of If" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- From: frisbieinstein@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 20 Dec 2005 01:46:28 -0800
Dr Hermes wrote:
> I can't imagine where all the
> matter and energy come from to create an entire new universe whenever a
> king makes a momentous decision or a battle is lost. It's probably not
> just a matter of human intent having significance, either.
Right. I think is only one universe. BUT electromagnetic fields,
which make up 99.9999% of the universe, energy, are very different from
matter. They exist only as a potential. Time is very different for
them, possibly doesn't exist at all. Future, past, present, are all
the same for an EM field. Time and space aren't important. It is very
possible that things can unhappen as easily as they happen, and that
nothing whatsoever is certain. If that is the case, then all sorts of
potentials exist superimposed on each other. The experiments seem to
point in this direction.
The time sense we have seems to be a rarity. It makes sense only
becase we are big aggregates of matter, so we have a weird perspective.
Things like that age. Energy and particles like protons and electrons
don't age.
.
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