: You could also theorize that the Mythworld lies on an
: alternate plain. In that world, the 'Earth' as it
: were, shifts differently and Magic is something that
: came about maybe from differences in the timeline.
: Where we developed technology, that world develops
: magic. A deity creates Trow instead of Adam and Eve,
: and so on and so forth.
You are exactly correct in every regard according to a quantum mechanical universe. I even interpret a lot of the things of the Mythworld universe as relating to their quantum mechanical equivalents, such as the Æther to quantum foam, and they work out very well.
In fact, pretty much any movie or fictional story can be interpreted as a real story of another universe.
However, I have never been one to subscribe to quantum mechanics. The primary reason for this is that it's no more than a philosophy.
All of quantum mechanics is based upon Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This underlying law of quantum mechanics stipulates that it is not possible to measure the exact position and exact velocity of a particle simultaneously. We can tell one or the other, but not both.
Now, this is derived, not from a necessary law of the universe, but from a technological limitation of humanity: to "see" a particle, we must bounce particles off of it. (Photons are sometimes used, but electrons, being higher-energy, have proven to be more effective in measuring particle attributes.) In any case, when we bounce particles off of another particle to collect the reflected particles and measure the observed particle, that observed particle has been moved by the affectation of our observance, it’s velocity and/or position changed. Therefore, with our present technology, it is not possible to observe both characteristics of a particle simultaneously, for our very action of observance affects what we observe.
Alternate examples of the “triumphs” of quantum mechanics include “Schrödinger’s Cat”. In this hypothesis, a cat is placed in a box which is completely sealed off from the outside world. (The cat has ample supply of food, water, and air, we just can’t know about it; it’s a completely self-contained little world.) Inside the box, there is a radioactive trigger which will set off a gun and kill the cat. Because of the half life nature of radioactive material, the gun has a 50% chance of being triggered at any one time. This means that there is a 50% chance of the cat being alive or dead at any one time. Therefore, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time.
This is absurd! The fact that we can’t see what is going on doesn’t denote that both possibilites are right! It’s one or the other, not both (I don’t believe God plays dice anymore than Einstein did). A simple opening of the box will determine if, how, and when the cat died. If the cat jumps into the scientist’s arms when he opens the box, it can be realized the gun never went off and the radioactive material never triggered.
Quantum mechanics’ rebuttle: until the opening of the box, the cat was both alive and dead at the same time, and that our actual looking at and observing the situation caused one event or the other to come into being.
Also: quantum mechanics is proven fact because it describes the subatomic world almost perfectly.
And this kind of popycock is accepted as hard fact?? Gah…what fools these mortals be…
Another advancement of quantum mechanics is the interpretation of the falling tree in a forest when no one’s around. Quantum mechanics says one of the two possibilities: the tree made no sound because we didn’t hear it; the tree both made a sound and did not simultaneously.
The answer to anything by quantum mechanics that it doesn’t know for sure seems to be that all possibilities actually and did occur. (Basically, it’s saying that all alternate universes are created by our ignorance and then recombine with the rest of the universe’s spacetimeline when we learn what really happened.) Lol, in a science where there is no wrong answer, it is not a science, but a philosphy.
This anthrocentric view that the universe is governed by our very observation of it is the most rediculous, contradictory, and unscientific I’ve ever known. It’s as absurd as one believing that his point of view is entirely correct and that all else is false. We know such an interpretation, in reality, to also be a fallacy.
Quantum mechanics is practically a myth, a way of explaining the mysticism of the universe that humanity invented to compensate for technological inferiority and inability to comprehend the world’s vastness.
“Quantum mechanics is reasonable and a hard science, one of the two pillars of modern physics, because it describes the world around us,” some will say in defense of the “science”. Well, so does the mythology of the ancient Greeks, but we don’t follow that equally blindly, now do we? A myth describes a world just as adiquately as quantum mechanics does (and a myth is actually far less contradicted in the real world, evidently).
I suppose it's a kind of poetic justice then that Myth itself is best described by something like quantum mechanics, both truly myth in their duel fictionality.
