Speaking of more tangential Pynchon themes

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Oh, this is hil*ar*ious.  I came across a list of all the peoples who
have/had Deluge myths.  250 different societies total, more than 500 total
myths.  None of them French!  They couldn't be bothered.  Of the Europeans:

Druids, Germans, Greeks, Gypsies, Icelanders, Laplanders, Lithuanians,
Norse, Romans, Slavs, Voguls, Welsh.

Over in Afrika, the Hottentots have one (at least).

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I listened to some phycisist on Flatow's Science Friday on NPR and two
> things.
> Cern having a press conference somehow about Ye Olde God Particle and
> recent discoveries on 4 July...
>
> But, so AtD-relevant I almost couldn't parallel park: there's a theory
> goin' round cosmological circles
> that maybe there is a shadow parallel universe in which certain
> particles--some neutrinos--'disappear';
> when they gather, say, 50 million neutrinos together, some dissappear,
> then reappear, etc....
> just like things do in AtD! Who else but TRP would find this new 'music of
> the spheres' as metaphor?
>
> Very speculative theory, of course, tries to account for their loss---and
> some energy loss--in this and
> sumpin' else........
>
> Seems the universe we know is entropic with leaks.........theory sez this
> shadow universe must control
> the loss and disappearances....cause the one we are in does not...
>
> "Hey, there's a hell of a good universe next door. Let's go."---e.e.
> cummings
>
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