RE: All Night Laundry - In which time is getting a little concerned - 2017-03-23
03-24-2017, 07:02 PM
And yet gravity appears to work based on the matter that's no longer present in the moment. As though the physics of that pocket universe were also taken at a snapshot in time, as though there was not enough time passed for gravity to "stop working."
I wouldn't be too surprised if once the bend of the u-shaped object were erased the unheld side continued to be suspended in air until someone interacted with it. Of course "interacting" might be equal to observing so if someone were paying attention it might just immediately fall.
Kinda like a glitch in a computer, a variable remains the same despite the thing it depended on no longer existing, until that value is accessed again. Then it recalculates the value and it comes up undefined. Though if such a thing were to occur I'd think it would generate a little paradox. That seems to be how reality in All-Night-Laundry handles impossible events.
In that sense if the U ended up partially extended into the Nothing while no one was observing it the unsupported piece remaining might not fall until the next time someone observed the experiment. That seems suitably spooky.
But then again, Pyotir the ghost dog in Bina's dreams appears in physical form inside the Moment so ascribing any actual kind of real world physics to the place is probably an exercise in madness. It may just be a lucid dream world that only exists and operates the way it does because people expect it too, with the only caveat that it is shrinking over "time."
I wouldn't be too surprised if once the bend of the u-shaped object were erased the unheld side continued to be suspended in air until someone interacted with it. Of course "interacting" might be equal to observing so if someone were paying attention it might just immediately fall.
Kinda like a glitch in a computer, a variable remains the same despite the thing it depended on no longer existing, until that value is accessed again. Then it recalculates the value and it comes up undefined. Though if such a thing were to occur I'd think it would generate a little paradox. That seems to be how reality in All-Night-Laundry handles impossible events.
In that sense if the U ended up partially extended into the Nothing while no one was observing it the unsupported piece remaining might not fall until the next time someone observed the experiment. That seems suitably spooky.
But then again, Pyotir the ghost dog in Bina's dreams appears in physical form inside the Moment so ascribing any actual kind of real world physics to the place is probably an exercise in madness. It may just be a lucid dream world that only exists and operates the way it does because people expect it too, with the only caveat that it is shrinking over "time."