GR: Explosion

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

is there anything outside of itself?

On Thu, 23 Jun 1994, Evan M Corcoran wrote:

> 
> I'm sure this is old news, but it seems to me that GR implies that ev-
> erything outside of itself is an explosion.  See, the book ends with a
> rocket landing on a theater, and the hymn is cut off by the explosion -
> BOOM - book over, into the world again.  Then turning back to the begin-
> ning, we hear the rocket's whine in the sky, catching up to the super-
> sonic machine: it's just landed, the explosion is over, somebody else
> got hit.  But by the time we get to the end it's us getting hit, again.
> So the book is (obviously) the construction and launching of the rocket,
> but the world outside the book is the detonation.  Neat, huh?
> 
> One other thing, in connection with the WASTE/Internet analogy and the
> Clipper debate: reread "Entropy", TRP casually mentions the NSA in, what
> was that, 1960?  When the NSA officially didn't exist?
> 
>  -EMC
>