(urth) note Re: Short Sun blog

[Jeff Wilson]

On 9/28/2010 10:13 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>> Roy C. Lackey- That power, and the power to bring the dead back to life, was a supernatural power.
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>> Jeff Wilson- Of course it's supernatural
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> Supernatural only to 21st century primitives who managed to use their puny millenium or two of
> scientific study to advance their understanding of the universe past alchemy, phlogiston and
> luminiferous aether to their quasi-religious beliefs in "entropy" and "conservation of mass-energy"
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> We of Urth's First Empire have 30,000 more years of science at our disposal and thus have over 15x more
> advanced knowledge of the universe and its possibilities. Yet we should not debase ourselves with hubris
> and should  decline to snicker at the neo-Neanderthals who struggled desperately with their simple
> Einsteinian-Planckian-Hawkingsian knowledge of physics and felt they had it all figured out, even as they
> needed a supreme effort just to travel to Lune. ;- ) 		 	   		

The only problem with that is it would make the First Imperials more 
transcendent than the Yesodis. I also find it funny that trillions of 
people on millions of worlds progress at the same rate as we poor 
benighted earthlings paddling around the kiddie pool of the universe.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >