Dragaera

Life-states

Jon_Lincicum at stream.com Jon_Lincicum at stream.com
Thu Jun 8 06:37:49 PDT 2006

Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> 
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Re: Life-states




>People talk about localized gravity on a de Sitter brane in five
>dimensions.  I was going to suggest that demons/gods can get access
>to a different brane and reenter ours at different points of spacetime.
>Then "killing" a god would mean causing the entrypoint to be occluded.
>But of course there's causality and the idea is surely nonsense which
>I can't begin to understand anyway.

I must admit, this begins to sound suspiciously like the gods' comments 
about "the world of seven doors" in reference to the Necromancer.

>Another physicsesque interpretation which I might have mentioned here
>in the past is the idea that all e.g. electrons are identical because
>there's just one, moving forward and (as a positron) backwards in time.
>Allowed to handwave away causality, one might construct multilocatability
>that way.
>
>I do like the idea of Verra forking into three processes during
>The Great Disaster and just never recombining.

Great. Now Verra's got Hyperthreading.

Majikjon