From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 13:23:29 MDT
From: Robert J. Bradbury
> Was the point of the quote that Pessoa's poem was about
> a Type IV god?
Yes. There is also another poem, by F. Pessoa, about
a type V God (recursive). :-)
"God is the Man of another greater God [...]"
[On the Grave of Christian Rosencreutz, I son.]
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> 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.
"[...]rapid space-travel, or travel back in time,
can't be ruled out, according to our present understanding.
They would cause great logical problems, so let's hope there's
a Chronology Protection Law, to prevent people going back,
and killing our parents. But science fiction fans need not
lose heart. There's hope in string theory."
http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/public/warps.html
And Hawking is also a poet ...
"There was a young lady of Wight,
Who traveled much faster than light,
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And arrived on the previous night."
> ... 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.
And also in Pessoa's words ...
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