EE.GDS%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (08/15/83)
From: Greg Skinner <EE.GDS%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC> The following is a message I sent out to sf-lovers last week. We are currently discussing alternate universes. The hypothesis is that they exist in the imaginations of others. Several sf novels have been cited as sources for these ideas. We'd like to get some theoreticians opinions of this. Please add sf-lovers to your cc: list if you discuss this. greg ee.gds@oz (chaos) ee.gds%mit-oz@mit-mc (arpa) -- I too, am an alternate-universe/time-travel lover, as you can see from my other messages. My original inspiration for reading Number of the Beast was because I heard Heinlein had addressed this issue and actually written a book where alternate universes were explored. It never occurred to me before then that alternate universes might exist in the imagination of others. But that opens the question Heinlein asked in NotB -- does that mean the universe WE live in is in the imagination of someone? And if so, who is that someone? I would love to start a lot of discussion on this topic. I am going to keep a copy of this message so I can send it to a distribution list where physics is discussed, to see what some people who deal in this kind of thing have to say about it. Personal replies to gds@xx please. My account on eecs will be down for a while (starting Aug 22). --bo -------
mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (08/30/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-420800:uiucdcs:24400034:000:96 uiucdcs!mcewan Aug 29 20:57:00 1983 I thought everyone knew that we are just characters in the dreams of the Earth-2 Gardner Fox...