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{{a|cosmology|}}:''Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein'' | |||
:—[[Nietzsche]], ''[[Jenseits von Gut und Böse]]'' | :—[[Nietzsche]], ''[[Jenseits von Gut und Böse]]'' | ||
For this is the beauty of the [[Multiverse]]: | For this is the beauty of the [[Multiverse]]: | ||
In an alternative universe it is always Saturday. All your loved ones will be there. Not only will they all be there, but they’ll all be somehow ''better''. They’ll like your jokes more. They’ll think you’re really important, but that will simply be reflecting the overwhelming groundswell of opinion on the planet that you, personally, have been misunderstood and under-appreciated, and which is fixated on putting that right. | :''In an alternative universe, it is always Saturday. All your loved ones will be there. Not only will they all be there, but they’ll all be somehow ''better''. They’ll like your jokes more. They’ll think you’re really important, but that will simply be reflecting the overwhelming groundswell of opinion on the planet that you, personally, have been misunderstood and under-appreciated, and which is fixated on putting that right.'' | ||
I tell myself this every evening as I cry myself to sleep. I write it in postcards to my dear grandmother, though she is now passed on, and I still address them as I did as a lad: | I tell myself this every evening as I cry myself to sleep. I write it in postcards to my dear [[Grandma Contrarian|grandmother]], though she is now passed on, and I still address them as I did as a lad: | ||
{{grandma's address}} | {{grandma's address}} | ||
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But here’s the logical impossibility: does it just ''stop'' at the [[Multiverse]]? If so, how to you know? Is that really plausible? Wouldn’t all those bubbles of cosmological froth be inside yet another bubble, colossal in this world yet infinitesimal in the next, just a pale blue dot in its own stupendous sea of infinitesimal bubbles? | But here’s the logical impossibility: does it just ''stop'' at the [[Multiverse]]? If so, how to you know? Is that really plausible? Wouldn’t all those bubbles of cosmological froth be inside yet another bubble, colossal in this world yet infinitesimal in the next, just a pale blue dot in its own stupendous sea of infinitesimal bubbles? | ||
{{ | [[Grandma Contrarian|Grandma]], are you listening? Are you there? | ||
{{sa}} | |||
*[[Occam’s razor]] | *[[Occam’s razor]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Voltaire’s maxim]] | ||
*[[Every dog has its day]] | *[[Every dog has its day]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||