oh, yeah!

[rich]

So hitler and Stalin get do overs? :)

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> In this text Pynchon posits a medium that unifies time, as opposed to
> space. Space cohesion is assumed, just not proved.  The "worlds" thus
> unified by Time Aether are not alternate dimensions, just all time-worlds.
> Such a multiple-option time world would allow for do-overs, like a video
> game.  That would be "kinder" to the one in control of time.
>
> Multiple Universes aren't in this model.
>
> David Morris
>
> […] this lack of symmetry leads to speculating that a presence, analogous
> to the Aether, flows through time, as the Aether flows through space. The
> assumption of a Vacuum in time tended to cut us off one from another. But
> an Aether sea to bear us world-to-world might bring us back a continuity,
> show us a kinder universe, more easygoing. … So, yes yes this is a
> scholasticism here, Rocket state- cosmology… the Rocket does lead that
> way—among others—past these visible serpent coils that lash up above the
> surface of Earth in rainbow light, in steel tetany… these storms, these
> things of Earth’s deep breast we were never told… past them, through the
> violence, to a numbered cosmos […]
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:26 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But pynchon does harp about new edens.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Better or worse are irrelevant considerations.  Real or imaginary are
>>> the key concepts.
>>>
>>> More interesting to me is the concept of no beginning, no Big Bang.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:02 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why assume a parallel universe is better. What if it's worse?
>>>> Check out vhs viral. Movie features one story in the anthology that
>>>> posits just that scenario. And it's not pretty. Parallel monsters in
>>>> effect.
>>>>
>>>> rich
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> oh, yeah!
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>>>>> Thomas Pynchon Predict Parallel Universes, Mini Black Holes, and the Death
>>>>> of the Big Bang Theory?
>>>>> <http://flavorwire.com/510868/did-thomas-pynchon-predict-parallel-universes-mini-black-holes-and-the-death-of-the-big-bang-theory>
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