Greg Egan wins
Dec. 20th, 2006 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackGreg Egan totally wins. Being a virtual reality person means you can go wherever data can. Including into the hyperuniverse in which the spherical universe youre in is embedded, or in vector space terminology, its dual. Twice. (The dual of a dual is often isomorphic to the original.) And not just twice, but a trillion times. That is truly mindboggling.
I still like the idea of exploring a virtual world for its own sake, rather than as part of a universe, but I think he gets to that too.
I'm not quite sure where to place his Kozuch Theory. I doubt it's *true*, or even could be, but is *plausible* to someone with a layman's knowledge of GR/quantum dynamics, which is exactly what's wanted. The equivalent of inventing a fictional political situation that doesn't quite match up with reality, but -- unlike most politics in fiction and almost all science in fiction -- doesn't have people going "Bwuhuh? WTH?" :)
I still like the idea of exploring a virtual world for its own sake, rather than as part of a universe, but I think he gets to that too.
I'm not quite sure where to place his Kozuch Theory. I doubt it's *true*, or even could be, but is *plausible* to someone with a layman's knowledge of GR/quantum dynamics, which is exactly what's wanted. The equivalent of inventing a fictional political situation that doesn't quite match up with reality, but -- unlike most politics in fiction and almost all science in fiction -- doesn't have people going "Bwuhuh? WTH?" :)