ix222 (04/03/83)
Just for fun, tonight i sat down and wrote up a set
of package specifications that provide some facilities for creating
a defiverse* to specs. But i have a slight problem. The apparently
recursive makeup of particles has no known basis. My question:
how does God (or Mickey Mouse, or Nature, or whatever) circumvent
stack overflow (or the divine equivalent) when creating matter?
Eliminating matter and energy as suitable bases, what have we got
left? Geometry? The geometry of a region of space is dependent
on the distribution of matter within it, and we are stuck with
our boxes-within-boxes again. E&M fields are out, since they are
much too weak, and require charged particles for their genesis.
Similiarly, strong and weak nuclear forces are unlikely candidates.
What's left? Only Nothing. Ah! Perfect! Nothing is built from
nothing, and has zero dependencies on other things in our defiverse.
Further, it is the perfect starting material, since before any
primal beginning it exists in the greatest abundance. The mystery
of genesis is solved!
On the bleak side, it is rather depressing to know that one's
computer terminal, one's beer, one's girlfriend, and one's theories
of the underlying basis of matter all reduce to nothing.
cheers,
steve serocki
{decvax philabs};sdcsvax;sdccsu3;ix222
*defiverse: the set of all things that can be defined.
this would naturally comprise, for starters, everything
that has ever been perceived, since anything can be defined
by description.