[UA] Random thought thing.

[Timothy Ferguson]

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From: "Piotr Pogorzelski" <pogo4 at caramail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 11:33 PM
Subject: [UA] Random thought thing.




>Quantum science gets more mystical all the time.  See
"The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra and several other
>books (Robert Anton Wilson tends to dwell on this,
especially in the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy and Cosmic
>Trigger).

Thanks for the advice. Where's the box in witch
Schrodinger's Cat was trapped? Did someone open it? Was the
cat alive or dead? Could be a interesting artifact...

[In one of my campaigns the cat had nipped off down the pub...It was an
anthropomorphic game in whichthe catwas Jewish and Scrodinger was a Nazi.  I
think, in our world, the box was conceptual.  Who'd open a box that might be
filled with poisonous gas?]

>What bothers me about mad scientists is that most aren't
scientists: they're engineers.  your average mad
>'scientist' doesn't spend much time theorizing about how
nature works, he just builds ray guns and giant robots.
>ah well...

[An obvious exception being those guys in "The Chessboard Planet" by Henry
Knutter, who gain the ability to rework the world by understanding a
mathematical formula which drives most mad, except those few who have brains
predesigned to accept that the laws of reality have a lot of flex in them.
The two final fellows both play fairy chess.]


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