: Certainly. I was merely disputing Forrest's assertion
: that the Mythworld *has* to experience multiple
: timelines.
Ah, I see.
: I think that the fact that there *is* a Total Codex,
: though, supports the idea that the Mythworld runs
: along relativistic principles (1 timeline) rather than
: quantum mechanical (many timelines) ones. Doesn't the
: existence of a book chronicling the whole of history
: suggest that that history is fixed? Which you might
: also assume from the fact that the Mythworld is a
: creation of Wyrd's mind. He already knows everything
: that will happen; he's just watching it play out.
Certainly. I think a single timeline is best (I hate Quantum Mechanics anyway :-). I am in full agreement.
Actually, and while we're on the subject, I was wondering about Quantum Mechanics. Apparently, Heisenberg postulated that it was impossible to know exactly at what velocity and what time a particle was at the same time, right? Well, this somehow means that the universe keeps itself from being observed.
Ok…well, Heisenberg is right…the interpretation is taken too far, however. I can think of some examples for possible ways to observe both time and velocity of an object, they're just completely infeasible with our present (and seemingly limited) level of technology. Whether these are right or not is beside the point because it is almost certainly likely that we WILL find a way to observe both velocity and time of an object at the same time, eventually.
So…Quantum Physicists are arrogant. Yes, you heard me. I base this because Quantum Physicists are so arrogant as to believe that, just because humans can't see it, it isn't there. This sounds arbitrary and stupid, no? Well, from my understanding, this is the case. Therefore, to make sure this rule stay constant with everything forever, Quantum Physicists conjured the concept of matter-antimatter particle pairs, bursting from the quantum foam constantly, then reannihilating eachother…this all just to prove Heisenberg litterally right. Am I on the right track so far?
The primary reason that Quantum Mechanics and Relativity clash is because Relativity's smooth, continuous, flowing, point-less space was the complete opposite of the point-particle, abrupted, quantum-foamed, time-inconscidering space of Quantum Mechanics. Why is Quantum Mechanics so foamy and un-relativistic? From my understanding, it is from the fact that matter-antiparticle pairs annihilate eachother, coming from litterally nowhere all the time. So…from the nowhere/quantum-foam come these pairs. The foam explains these particles coming from nowhere. The foam is utterly clashing with Relativity.
So that means the primary problem with The Great Clash of modern physics is the fact that Quantum Mechanics has quantum foam. A theory called Superstring Theory, a favorite of mine, has elementary particles made of little loops of vibrating string rather point particles. With point particles, one can magnify into infinity with distances getting larger and larger, yet there still able to be more and more reactions possible on the smaller levels. As the magnification increases, the quantum foam becomes apparent enough to the point where it breaks Relativity, so to speak. Nothing is smaller than the elementary strings of String Theory. The point where quantum foam becomes a problem is much smaller than a string. Therefore, if nothing is smaller than a string, it doesn't have any relavance on the real world and doesn't exist, for all intensive purposes. This is about as arbitrary as the "just because I don't see it, it doesn't exist" philosophy which has been the base of Quantum Mechanics, but it's a far less…dumb way of divining the universe. In this way, String Theory basically unifies Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, though the theory needs impossible-to-do-as-of-yet calculations completed to be proven mathematically first.
In conclusion, since matter-antiparticle pairs are irrelvant because they're based off a misunderstood principle, they don't exist. That means no quantum foam. That means no clash between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. That means the end of our problems.
Archer »–)š
