Comments on: Voices in the White http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gary http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14723 gary Sun, 11 May 2008 15:35:31 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14723 Rudy: The beachside photos are so wonderful make me homesick for the Bay Area. BTW, I would love to use the waterblob .jpg for my blog. I've never asked this before, but what are your terms for posting the waterblob .jpg on my site with full credit to you & your blog? It's a great photo & much more artistic than the NASA water-on -Mars illos. Rudy:

The beachside photos are so wonderful make me homesick for the Bay Area.

BTW, I would love to use the waterblob .jpg for my blog.

I’ve never asked this before, but what are your terms for posting the waterblob .jpg on my site with full credit to you & your blog?

It’s a great photo & much more artistic than the NASA water-on -Mars illos.

]]> By: Steve H http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14697 Steve H Fri, 09 May 2008 15:04:02 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14697 ian, it could be the beginning of the most cosmic zombie movie ever. Revenants from another dimension, here to eat our phantom energy. "Braaaanes," they'd moan, "more branes," hoping to extract enough energy to create their own brane. The last remnants of humanity could be huddled in the Large Hadron Collider, fighting them off with stonkers and kluspers. Newt Gingrich could play the boss zombie, without any makeup or CGI. The news here, as far as I can tell, isn't that some cosmologists have a new neato theory that supports itself by doing dubious math; it's that Rudy, who is in a position to hear a lot of these theories and who has the background and brains to think them through, thinks this one is fairly convincing. Or at least this group of theories. It might be handy to know the shape of the universe. ian, it could be the beginning of the most cosmic zombie movie ever. Revenants from another dimension, here to eat our phantom energy. “Braaaanes,” they’d moan, “more branes,” hoping to extract enough energy to create their own brane. The last remnants of humanity could be huddled in the Large Hadron Collider, fighting them off with stonkers and kluspers. Newt Gingrich could play the boss zombie, without any makeup or CGI.

The news here, as far as I can tell, isn’t that some cosmologists have a new neato theory that supports itself by doing dubious math; it’s that Rudy, who is in a position to hear a lot of these theories and who has the background and brains to think them through, thinks this one is fairly convincing. Or at least this group of theories. It might be handy to know the shape of the universe.

]]> By: ian http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14691 ian Thu, 08 May 2008 21:29:48 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14691 Does anybody else see a sort of fractal comparison between the two giant branes and the two hemisphere's of our brains? Maybe that's just my instinct for puns taking over, but I think there's a lot of good metaphors to be found in all this crazy cosmology. I mean "phantom energy and cosmic doomsday"? Sounds more like a comic book series! =) Ok then, maybe just two wires, sparking to create a current? A giant cosmic on-switch? Is this the reason everything seems to work in polarities? Does anybody else see a sort of fractal comparison between the two giant branes and the two hemisphere’s of our brains? Maybe that’s just my instinct for puns taking over, but I think there’s a lot of good metaphors to be found in all this crazy cosmology. I mean “phantom energy and cosmic doomsday”? Sounds more like a comic book series! =)

Ok then, maybe just two wires, sparking to create a current? A giant cosmic on-switch? Is this the reason everything seems to work in polarities?

]]> By: Gamma http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14690 Gamma Thu, 08 May 2008 20:32:10 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14690 as yu can imagine the length of the PLankh ov the rim of das boote - it is linked in with the Kosmic Myrrh purring away like thoughts in the head of Joyce fingering his gnosis across the Goden Ankh ot what is it X-day already? GONG g as yu can imagine the length of the PLankh ov the rim of das boote - it is linked in with the Kosmic Myrrh purring away like thoughts in the head of Joyce fingering his gnosis across the Goden Ankh ot what is it X-day already?

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]]> By: Russ Van Rooy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14689 Russ Van Rooy Thu, 08 May 2008 13:03:01 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14689 Rudy, Very cool stuff here on cosmology. I spend a lot of my extra cycles thinking about the universe: its size, its fate, its infinitude. I find the idea of an infinite universe more aesthetically pleasing than a finite universe that eventually stops expanding and ultimately collapses in a "big crunch". The cyclic universe in which this happens was the most popular view when I was a kid in the 70s. Steinhardt/Turok's theory seems plausible enough ( I will seek out their book) ,but the central problem with every TOE since the "steady state" theory is that no one seems to be able to answer where all that matter/energy came from? I do personally hope that the universe is infinite ! Keep writing Rudy ! Rudy,
Very cool stuff here on cosmology. I spend a lot of my extra cycles thinking about the universe: its size, its fate, its infinitude. I find the idea of an infinite universe more aesthetically pleasing than a finite universe that eventually stops expanding and ultimately collapses in a “big crunch”. The cyclic universe in which this happens was the most popular view when I was a kid in the 70s. Steinhardt/Turok’s theory seems plausible enough ( I will seek out their book) ,but the central problem with every TOE since the “steady state” theory is that no one seems to be able to answer where all that matter/energy came from? I do personally hope that the universe is infinite ! Keep writing Rudy !

]]> By: rs http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14683 rs Tue, 06 May 2008 19:36:41 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14683 so last time I checked infinity was big. this book I read once showed me that once I've postulated the actual infinite I'm less than half a Plank Length from God. this just seems to me another mechanism for creating a multiverse. do these successive universes exist somewhere in what we call time? And how does this negate an anthropic universe, do all such universes have life? (Don't answer that, I'll get the book!) I think any TOE that does not explain why, 3, 4, 10, 11, etc. dimensions and time is really just entertainment, meaning just a pleasant hike in the hills. All these theories take these things as a given, which seems completely unsatisfactory to me. None of them really say what anything is, or how it is that anything exists at all. BTW, I just read Paul Davies book which at least acknowledges these questions. Really, branes clapping every trillion years, give me a break! What is the sound of one brane clapping? I think it all has to come out of number. God noticed I Am. I am that I am. I am that I am that I am. ... so last time I checked infinity was big. this book I read once showed me that once I’ve postulated the actual infinite I’m less than half a Plank Length from God.

this just seems to me another mechanism for creating a multiverse. do these successive universes exist somewhere in what we call time? And how does this negate an anthropic universe, do all such universes have life? (Don’t answer that, I’ll get the book!)

I think any TOE that does not explain why, 3, 4, 10, 11, etc. dimensions and time is really just entertainment, meaning just a pleasant hike in the hills. All these theories take these things as a given, which seems completely unsatisfactory to me. None of them really say what anything is, or how it is that anything exists at all. BTW, I just read Paul Davies book which at least acknowledges these questions.

Really, branes clapping every trillion years, give me a break! What is the sound of one brane clapping?

I think it all has to come out of number. God noticed I Am. I am that I am. I am that I am that I am. …

]]> By: Steve H http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14672 Steve H Mon, 05 May 2008 20:13:46 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/05/05/voices-in-the-white/#comment-14672 Wasn't "The Big Flash" a story by Spinrad? Rock group writing love songs to The Bomb? I saw them warming up for Chaotic Mixmaster Scenario back in '71. Helluva show. I think Big Rip was the M.C. And I thought the Baum-Frampton cycle was when you synch ALICE IN WONDERLAND with FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE, but maybe I'm confusing that with Oz and PinkFloyd. It's tortoises all the way down! Maybe the previous universes are just 'painted over' instead of being erased, sealed behind a weak brane maybe? If it can get advance energy, maybe the value of Pi is slightly higher/lower or the Planck length is slightly different each time? Otherwise the universe would be exactly the same every time, and I'd like to be taller next time around. Unless I end up as a galaxy, which would be pretty cool. Imagine my business cards . . . Wasn’t “The Big Flash” a story by Spinrad? Rock group writing love songs to The Bomb? I saw them warming up for Chaotic Mixmaster Scenario back in ‘71. Helluva show. I think Big Rip was the M.C.
And I thought the Baum-Frampton cycle was when you synch ALICE IN WONDERLAND with FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE, but maybe I’m confusing that with Oz and PinkFloyd.
It’s tortoises all the way down! Maybe the previous universes are just ‘painted over’ instead of being erased, sealed behind a weak brane maybe? If it can get advance energy, maybe the value of Pi is slightly higher/lower or the Planck length is slightly different each time? Otherwise the universe would be exactly the same every time, and I’d like to be taller next time around. Unless I end up as a galaxy, which would be pretty cool. Imagine my business cards . . .

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