From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 11:40:51 MDT
On Sun, 5 May 2002, scerir wrote:
[snip]
> [Fernando Pessoa, 'The King of Gaps', circa 1911-1917]
Was the point of the quote that Pessoa's poem was about
a Type IV god? [That part of my brain that interprets
poems doesn't work on Sundays or most days for that matter.]
> John Schilling wrote:
*Who* was John Schilling? Where in the net does he
reside (other than the archives...)?
> Type I God: Sufficiently advanced technology.
> Can do absolutely anything within the framework
> of natural, physical law.
[snip]
> Type I Gods can just perform suitably impressive
> physical feats. Set up a wormhole transit system
> to dump a couple hundred blue-white supergiants
> into a constellation ten light-years out spelling
> 'Yes, Earthlings, I Exist'.
Wait a minute. I think Hawking has said that if one
can transport things through wormholes then time travel
is possible and we have a real causality problem.
So wormhole transport of supergiants would violate
natural, physical law and the proposed demonstration
of "Look on my works ye mighty and despair" or some
equivalent thereof doesn't fly.
Robert
... dragging back the curtain covering the magic physics
*really* hoping that such doesn't exist. If it does,
then my bets would be that this isn't the basement
universe, and if that is true, then it would really suck.
At least IMO.
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