There Are Doors

James Wynn · 21 May 2009, 16:09 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:09:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) There Are Doors
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>>> I bought "There Are Doors" at a used bookstore
>>> last week.  I am thoroughly impressed.
>>
>> TAD is the only "parallel universe" story to offer a systemic 
>> justification the close similarities in parallel universes that have 
>> major variations in their histories: Nearby universes are influencing 
>> each other at a non-rational level.
>
> What's non-rational about people spreading artifacts, memes, and genes 
> back and forth?

That's not the explanation given. Green compares the universes to two 
adjacent guitar strings tuned to the same note. When you pluck one, the 
other resonates. By the same token, men in our world wear black at their 
weddings. There's no "reason" for it.  They wear black here, because they 
wear black there. They wear black there for a rational reason: The man is 
about to die.

J.

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