We appreciate the comments. I'll have to read Heinlein's book.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > To all members: > > > > > > I just had this thought this morning and may have relevance to > > this > > > forum. The answer is "yes" because we dream. Humans are the > > product > > > of the universe. As such, we are the universe. (Some > > fundamentalists > > > of any religion may have problems accepting this idea.) > > > > > > We can even speculate that our dreams are the equivalent of the > > worm > > > holes the cosmologists are talking about. Each time we dream we > > create > > > a new world or dimension. Or, it could be that we travel to the > > > various lokas as the vedic texts have written about. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > John R. > > > > > This reminds me of something I heard, could've been MMY who > > said, 'if you can imagine it, it exists'. Also have had personal > > experience of visiting both heavens and hells through my dreams... > > > > I think I mentioned this before (and Robert Heinlein has fun with the > concept in _Number of the Beast_): theoretical physics talks about 4 > possible levels of "meta-universe." > > The first is simply the mathematical certainty that if the universe > is really infinite than every possible combination of elementary > particles exists somewhere, including exact duplicates of our own > local (observable over the past 20 billion years since the big bang > incident started the ball rolling locally) universe, which is a only > a miniscule 20 billion light-years in radius (or whatever). > > The second comes from the Quantum Mechanics "many worlds" > interpretation which says that any and all possible Quantum > Mechanical events take place every instant at every location > throughout our universe, each of which is-part-of/creates it's own > universe. > > The third assumes that all possible values of all possible physical > constants give rise to their own meta-universes of the first two > types. > > Finally, the fourth possible meta-meta-universe includes all possible > mathematically consistent descriptions of existence. > > This last is a doozy, because "mathematically consistent" covers, > well, everything that any creature, or meta-creature could "conceive" > of, including any and all written/spoken/performed literature or > dreams, for that matter. > > In Heinlein's book, some people in the future create a drive that can > take them to any possible universe and they put it in a futuristic > mobile home. At one point, they travel to the Land of Oz, where the > Good Witch of the East (I think) gives them a window in their > bathroom that always looks out over the Emerald City, no matter > where/when/whatever they are... > > > No-one can prove that any of these meta-universes exists, but they > are all logical consequences of various assumptions about the > mathematics that Physicists already use to describe Reality. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AQDrNC/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
