"spooky action at a distance"

[Doug Millison]

  Otto mentions "The world is much bigger than it looks" -- another 
quote from the NYTimes article 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/12/science/12QUAN.html)  I 
referenced; this might also recall those vehicles and buildings that 
turn out to be bigger on the inside than they look from the outside, 
of which we find several examples in M&D and GR. Quite a bit has been 
written about the uncertainty principle and Pynchon's works, and I 
imagine there might be current Pynchon criticism that looks at the 
way Pynchon deals with these recent advances in quantum mechanics 
(quite a bit of the most surprising stuff has emerged since the 
publication of the early stories, V., COL49, and GR), but I don't 
know of any specific articles -- maybe somebody else has specific 
references?  During MDMD, we heard some intriguing suggestions that 
Pynchon was in fact dealing with some of this "quantum weirdness" 
(that's a technical term, I believe) in Mason & Dixon, but those 
discussion threads didn't really go far.  Vineland may have allusions 
to this, too -- I don't remember anything concrete coming up in VLVL 
regarding Pynchon's possible treatment of current quantum mechanics 
concepts in that novel. I'd be surprised to learn that Pynchon hasn't 
keep up with recent advances in physics and cosmology and that he 
hasn't worked them into his more recent fiction the way he did in his 
earlier works.e

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