"CONFOUNDED - PHYSICS!"

Did any of you people in Los Angeles see last night's "Nova" episode on KCET last night? If so you were treated to the proposition that one physical object could be in two places at the same time. There is a physicist who in 1954 came up with the notion of Parellel Universes. This is not at all an unfermiliar concept to either Star Trek fans, or those who have watched the program "Sliders". This physisicist was wrestling with the stramge laws of subatomic particles, which exist in their own set of physical laws. We know that "quirks" pop up from place to place mysteriously without having to travel there. This author in previous postings has suggested that the key to alternate universes or parrellel universes lies in the make-up of subatomic particles we can observe in this universe. But even here the Heisenburg uncertainty principle tells us that we can isolate wither the location of an electron or the places of an electron, but that we cannot observe both occurances together. This physicist on the show worked for three years from 1954 to 1957 on this principle of simotanious location of the same object, but then he gave up his work because it wasn't catching on with Bohr and other physicists who were older than he and presumably knew more. But lately the work has been unearthed from the archives of a university and looked at anew by scientists. This physicist went so far as to state that even a cat could be simotaniously alive and dead at the same time. The idea of a single physical object occupying two universes at once is not alien to we at the Federation. We have stated often that the nature of the subatomic substance determines the sort of space that surrounds it. To put in simpler terms you can understand better: I have a solution to the puzzle that was not touched upon last night but that I have several times spoken of in my blog posting. This is the idea that Time, in addition to a fourtn dimension, also occupies a fifth dimension. If eight lines raying out from a single point is the sign of "Life", how about an infinite number of lines going out from that same dot. This lays down the possibility of parrellel universes, and alternate realities, both for physical objects and for human lives. People can "have more than one fate". Anything that CAN happen WILL happen in one Universe or another. There is an almost Religious aspect to this notion of one physical substance occupying more than one Universe or space-time dimension. Have you considered the Catholic Nicine formula for the Holy Trinity. It says "God is of such a nature so as not to confound the persons nor to divide the substance". Many people have scrated their heads and wondered "How can this be". How can an object have two different actions or consequences to those actions. In the demonstration in the show they locked a cat in a room with some radioactive substance - - and if enough of that substance decays then it sets of some other action that releases other poison that kills the cat.

Many people have mused to themselves "I wish I had more than one lifetime to learn all the things I know my brain has the capacity to learn. Certainly in looking at the statistical analytical stuff that wolframalpha.com performs - one concludes quickly that there is much material yet to learn in the area, for instance, of statistical analysis. I changed one of their sample equations to make it harder, and the program came up with five possible solutions that would "satisfy" the equation on a cartisian x and y graph. One might extrapelate in a "Where's Waldo" quiz, that Waldo may be at several places in different universes simotaniously. Each contingency would still satisfy the "substance" of "x", which is Waldo. These are things to think about.