From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 22:46:47 EDT
This may at least wound a couple of Glenn's worry-birds, his fear that this list
is my only hobby & his concern that MWH is incompatible with deism. It was written
with MWI of QM in mind some 30 years ago in a more Byzantine phase but I think that, at
a minimum, the last line is still relevant.
THREE OLD MEN SHOOTING CRAPS
Our straitened vision sees but one world.
Each effect springs from one cause.
Dead past and unborn future are unique.
When we make a choice, where two roads branch,
We cannot call it back.
That choice /was/ made, its consequence /is/.
Yet all the time, at the heart of the world
The quantum nibbles at certainty
Like worms at the corpse of an orthodox emperor.
You glance at history and say, "If only ..."
Are you able to believe
That all choices are made, all worlds are?
Harold won at Hastings, the South at Gettysburg.
Hamilton found the wave equation,
And the bishops gather in the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
Indeed, God does play dice with the universe.
But we all know that,
In the end, the House always wins.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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