Not much happening today; I am on the Linux hard drive doing some updating. It is nice to compute using a quick, safe, and efficient operating system such as Linux Ubuntu. I run the 32 bit version here but my laptop has 64 bit and it is even faster. The newest incarnation of Microsoft Windows will be released later this year and it will be optimized for use on touch-screen devices such as smart phones and tablets; they are desperately trying to catch up with Mac and Linux. I am still hanging on with WinXP; new beta drivers from Nvidia seem to have cured many of the display and crashing problems.
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Alternate universes. Believe or don’t believe, Einstein’s theories not only allows for them but also predicts that they can and may exist. After 100 years of testing, his theories are still holding up. Mark’s latest accident is a good case of what could be in alternate universes. When there is a major, sudden change in the universe or even in our lives, a new universe may come into existence paralleling the old one. As time goes by, each will further evolve in its own way. Let us say that when Mark fell from the ladder, he was able to land in a way that did not break his leg, but just shook him up and made him careful around ladders. From that fall we would have a split universe, one with him as we know him now; a broken version of himself and another universe with him sore but no bad damage which we would not know about but our parallel selves living there would know. However, just about everything else he he knew from his past would be the same in both universes. At the moment of his impact, he could have broken his neck and died, thus causing another universe where we would be without our friend. In another scenario, maybe the ladder slipped and he did not fall; the rest of us would still be in that universe, too and we would probably never have heard anything about it. Of course we can go back to when Mark bought his house; so many things could have been different then and he may also live in a universe where he bought a different house, hit the lottery, became a bigamist, and moved to Cuba. Most of these parallel universe diverge and go their own way but sometimes, due to cosmic forces, they once again touch just for a moment and information is exchanged between them; there be monsters there!
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Have a great weekend.
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Alternate universes. Believe or don’t believe, Einstein’s theories not only allows for them but also predicts that they can and may exist. After 100 years of testing, his theories are still holding up. Mark’s latest accident is a good case of what could be in alternate universes. When there is a major, sudden change in the universe or even in our lives, a new universe may come into existence paralleling the old one. As time goes by, each will further evolve in its own way. Let us say that when Mark fell from the ladder, he was able to land in a way that did not break his leg, but just shook him up and made him careful around ladders. From that fall we would have a split universe, one with him as we know him now; a broken version of himself and another universe with him sore but no bad damage which we would not know about but our parallel selves living there would know. However, just about everything else he he knew from his past would be the same in both universes. At the moment of his impact, he could have broken his neck and died, thus causing another universe where we would be without our friend. In another scenario, maybe the ladder slipped and he did not fall; the rest of us would still be in that universe, too and we would probably never have heard anything about it. Of course we can go back to when Mark bought his house; so many things could have been different then and he may also live in a universe where he bought a different house, hit the lottery, became a bigamist, and moved to Cuba. Most of these parallel universe diverge and go their own way but sometimes, due to cosmic forces, they once again touch just for a moment and information is exchanged between them; there be monsters there!
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Have a great weekend.
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