1) Can the past be changed? (or does time have more than one dimension?)
2) If so, can it be changed so that two or more people have differing memories?
3) What effects do recording have?
The people who know me well know I have an unusual memory for details. Now I don�t expect strangers to know this, and really should have expected people to doubt my accuracy. In fact I think this is what happens to most reality glitches. People doubt their own memories, and other people doubt them, then everyone ASSUMES that there is a single constant reality. But what if this is not so? Hey, I admit I have no final proof at this point. I have yet to conduct my follow up visit to the construction company. BUT the point here is not whether I have attained proof, it�s to discuss the possibility that there are pockets of alternate reality that go unobserved precisely BECAUSE we distrust our own and other�s memories; unobserved because there is as yet no proof. The point is to perhaps come up with some testable theory. Because of my detailed memories I have come to believe that such glitches do occur, only recently it has been bugging me and I wonder if there is some sort of solvable problem here.
In David Brin�s �Earth� there were many scenes involving people wired with cameras constantly downloading stuff to the internet. I thought of this and wondered what might have been the result if I had a recorded record of what I had seen and been told in the various agency offices. In fact what is the result (in a quantum sense) of recording events? Does this make the event more stable in everyone�s reality? If everyone started recording entire days, would this cause provability of glitches, or actually prevent them?
After all, once you�ve decided to observe something�.
When the bag tear glitch occurred, there was a lot of precipitation happening, so I was only riding the one bike that had fenders. This is certain. The other bike had been dropped and had a tear in the bag resembling the one observed on the other bike. Admitting this just adds doubt to what at this point appears only to be a tale. No one messes with my bikes but me. There is no proof. No one agrees who gave my brother the chess set 35 years ago for xmas, but I remember this as the first such glitch I observed and have wondered ever since. The roller derby truck rolled under the couch and vanished from all known realities forever. Again, I am asking, not to convince anyone or to claim I have proof. This is really about questioning the stability of what we perceive as a single world. Is there a way of constructing/conducting an experiment to illuminate this?
You open the box and the cat is dead. Later you see the cat alive. Was it dead, or did you dream it? If you had no independent witnesses or recordings, you�d be hard put to prove anything. I suspect that the universe with the cat alive will contain only recordings of the living cat. Though some would say that the cat was in BOTH states until the box was opened. Does someone else remember the other state of the cat? We just wouldn�t know unless we ask, and then someone will say it must�ve been a different cat, or you were dreaming, or sipping fog or something. Well, it was raining. -- Alan.
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