<quote> From: Wilbur07 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: a response to "Parallel or Divergent Earths?" Newsgroups: alt.tv.sliders View: Complete Thread (3 articles) | Original Format Date: 1996/09/24
In article <51kara$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Boe) writes: >=> For example, should I pick up my red pencil or my blue pencil? The >=> result is the same. Is an entire universe created where the only >=> difference is my memory of which pencil I used, a memory which may last a >=> few hours? Unlikely. Equally, the results of major choices will fade >=> over a period of years, centuries or millenia. > > Ah! At last someone else has picked up on the notion that a trivial > action shouldn't make for a separate universe. > > Well, contrast this with Ian Malcolm's dialog in Jurassic Park with Laura Dern's character -- the basis of chaos theory being that a trivial action can be causal of a non-trivial effect. But then again, the nth iteration, when seen from a distance, makes individual differences trivial to the pattern as a whole . . . does this make sense? Mark Constantino </quote> It does not make sense. The trivial difference in our universe did not create a separate universe, since there was a period of time where I remembered the old state and everybody else did not, and most people are aware now that there is a difference in states. If there were parallel universes, I would somehow have rejoined two separate ones into the original universe -- one or the other would have been destroyed. More likely is that there is a locality of state change [nexus] within the same universe of our time, where I could remember the previous state, and the new state could elsewise exist. I'll leave the absurdity as to why destroying a hugely similar universe is impossible on the premise of uniqueness as an exercise for y'all.
