2009/8/24 Pat <[email protected]>

>
> > Assuming a continuum, why do you think a future there contained is
> anything
> > other than a perfectly indeterminate, fluctuating, and malleable one?
>
>    That's easy!!  Because I would expect it to be like every other
> part of the continuum.  I.e., as fixed as is the past.  Now, if you
> and I can somehow figure out how to change the past (NOT just writing
> an historical yet false account), then I'll be more open to a mutable
> future.  I can't see ANY basis for thinking that the continuum works
> differently in some parts than it does in others; it's a continuum--
> the rules for it always apply.


How does this work with multiverses? Is there a single continuum that
encompasses all space and all time, or does each delineation of multiverse
have a separate continuum?



> On the opposite side of that question:
> what makes you think that there would be a difference between the way
> the future works and the way the past works?  I can see absolutely no
> basis for it; but, of course, I can't see everything.  ;-)


I wouldn't presume to know how either works, Pat.

Ian

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