Parallel universe bump.
Posted on 06/25/2003 7:42:21 AM PDT by Junior
The redhead Xev was better looking. LEXX Rocks...
Doesn't it follow logically, that everything that ever COULD happen, is happening RIGHT NOW? And continues to happen again and again every Plank second?
I believe the author said meters not light years. Your point is still valid, that the universe is NOT infinite (if Big Bang is true). But the author also says "...infinite or sufficiently big
Still fun to ponder either way
Can I claim him as a dependent on my taxes? Because if I didn't exist, he wouldn't either. That should be worth something, especially in an age when you can get a tax credit when you didn' pay taxes...
Parallel universe bump.
For myself, I prefer the phrase, "mind-bogglingly huge".
Go back in time and do something that will make a significant change.
While it most likely wouldn't create a parallel universe, it would create a parallel world or time line, though an unnatural one.
Although the concept seems stretched or far-fetched, in biblical context it becomes more valid.
There are numerous prophecies regarding end-time, latter-day scenarios and events. There are only several ways to account for the origins and the fulfillment of the prophecies.
1) The prophecies were a stated desire and outcome that necessitates a careful control of events to order their actualization.
2) The prophecies were actual accounts of first hand observations conveyed from the future or present to the past.
In all likelihood both premises hold weight, although the second is more plausible. But once stated it may well bring the first premise into play in order to avoid a false prophecy. For interaction with the past can initiate change and it's possible that change can invalidate future events.
Infinite : Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things from.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flanian Pobble bead is only exchangeable for other Flanian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.
The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough - see AREA.
Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that might keep all the nonexistent people of the Universe occupied.
However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see GUIDE Chapters seven, nine, ten, eleven, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one to eighty-four inclusive, and in fact most of the rest of the Guide.
While you might not like the implication, it is still a possibility and should not be discounted.
(Is that enough Moorecock references for now?)
Elric?! Is that you??
I wonder if Stormbringer would do me any good in Austin traffic....
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