Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:34 pm
Good point, Orlion!
It's difficult to talk rationally about stuff like parallel universes without any concrete proof, and flack from cynics or unbelievers only adds to the delicate if not serious investigation!
So this will zound weely weely weird: that identifying a shift in the universal constant is chiefly founded on less evidence and more the belief in what is observed. These things, the observed incremental changes which occurs in the universal constant, are fleeting and will forever slip through the fingers, so to speak, like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
I've long believed that an SRD book might be employed as an instrument of collective observation and there can be no better place to conduct such a study as right here on Kevin's Watch.
My first inkling of this idea was while writing the short short story, "The Fourth Ward", (which can be found in the Fatal Revenant forum for anyone interested). I wanted to re-read the passage where Mhoram, Elena, and Amatin, mind-meld on the hill overlooking the Rock Garden's of the Maerl.
I wanted to gather a little information on the departure of Covenant and Bannor. BUT! I couldn't locate the passage where I thought I remembered the two of them leaving the company on the hill.
Had I just made the mistake about where that particular passage had been? Or, more excitedly, had a shift in the universal constant occurred and no one was ever aware of it...ah well, we can but dream!...can we?
It's difficult to talk rationally about stuff like parallel universes without any concrete proof, and flack from cynics or unbelievers only adds to the delicate if not serious investigation!
So this will zound weely weely weird: that identifying a shift in the universal constant is chiefly founded on less evidence and more the belief in what is observed. These things, the observed incremental changes which occurs in the universal constant, are fleeting and will forever slip through the fingers, so to speak, like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
I've long believed that an SRD book might be employed as an instrument of collective observation and there can be no better place to conduct such a study as right here on Kevin's Watch.
My first inkling of this idea was while writing the short short story, "The Fourth Ward", (which can be found in the Fatal Revenant forum for anyone interested). I wanted to re-read the passage where Mhoram, Elena, and Amatin, mind-meld on the hill overlooking the Rock Garden's of the Maerl.
I wanted to gather a little information on the departure of Covenant and Bannor. BUT! I couldn't locate the passage where I thought I remembered the two of them leaving the company on the hill.
Had I just made the mistake about where that particular passage had been? Or, more excitedly, had a shift in the universal constant occurred and no one was ever aware of it...ah well, we can but dream!...can we?
