Science catches up to the New Sun

Jeff Wilson · 14 Dec 2008, 05:39 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:39:48 -0600
Subject: (urth) Science catches up to the New Sun
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David Stockhoff wrote:
> James---
> 
> Apheta makes it fairly clear that causation has occurred. The Hieros
> happened, and then the Hierogrammates happened. The Hieros' old
> universe is gone, and Briah has not. Naturally, the Hieros can move
> from Yesod to any universe, but only any universe that exists. So the
> model of universes separated by time is a given in her version.
> 
> They aren't successive in the sense of occupying the same space,
> since that would be meaningless. But it's reasonable to guess that
> universes are not actually created or destroyed, just like matter.

There are however questions of scale that can make them practically 
inaccessible.

Also, it's more like "Science catches up to Anderson's _Tau Zero_"  or 
Lee and Kirby's _Fantastic Four_", as both featured means of 
side-stepping the grand gnab into new universes ten years before the 
Book appeared.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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