[lano666]
- From: "Mattia Norando" <nor81@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lano666@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:07:28 +0200
"One encouraging thing the Guide does have to say on the subject of
parallel universes is that you don't stand the remotest chance of
understanding it. You can therefore say "What?" and "EH?" and even go
cross-eyed and start to blither if you like without any fear of making a
fool of yourself.
The first thing to realize about parallel universes, the Guide says, is
that they are not parallel.
It is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking,
universes either, but is as easiest if you don't try to realize that until a
little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to
that moment is not true.
The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not
actually a THING as such, but is just a way of looking at what is
technically known as the WSOGMM, or Whole Sort Of General Mish Mash. The
Whole Sort Of General Mish Mash doesn't actually exist either, but is just a
sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it
did.
The reason they are not parallel is the same reason that the sea is not
parallel. It doesn't mean anything. You can slice the Whole Sort of General
Mish Mash any way you like and you will generally come up with something
that someone will call home.
Please feel free to blither now."
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, the fifth in the increasingly inaccurately
named Hitchhiker's Trilogy
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