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NOW! HOT OFF THE PRESS! IT’S TRUE, AND YOU SAW IT HERE! The confusion and consternation surrounding Black Holes and the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy is no more! The paradox has finally been solved, and by no less a genius than Stephen Hawking. What exactly is a black hole, you may ask? Is it a Promethean Wall, impenetrable, its proselytes imploding like shattered glass into infinite random bits the moment they approach? Or is it a gateway through which the history of the universe passes and is recorded, sort of? Is a black hole a QUANTUM COMPUTER, spitting out infinite waves of bingo balls, or is it deterministic, a UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINE, encrypting but not destroying the information it is given? Is chaos a higher form of order? YES, IT IS! There is no chaos! Chaos is simply order that requires either a black hole or an infinity of universes to really understand. And another thing. Like a buy one, get one free, deal of a lifetime, Steven Hawking also had this to say. All you people who stuck by Kurt Gödel through thick and thin. Well, . . . KURT WAS RIGHT! His Incompleteness Theorem, the one that states that for any formal language there exists a well-formed statement that cannot be derived from the rules for the formation of statements in that language, that all languages are fundamentally incomplete, that to derive the statement you have to add a rule, creating yet another language with its own unique statement that cannot be derived from the new set of rules? Now we know. It does go on and on forever in both the LANGUAGE UNIVERSE and the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE! Think about it! Even if there are an infinite number of yous and an infinite number of mes and all the yous combined have lived every possible particle combination that a quantum universe containing the multidimensional you can live and so have all the mes, every single you and every single me is communicating with languages that will never be complete. Not a single you or me in our infinity of quizzlers is EVER going to have all the answers! So, is that a good thing or a bad thing? We’ll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, if you want to get technical about it, you could argue that any statement having relationships with other statements in a given language (which all statements do), being also a member of an infinite number of increasingly complex languages, has relationships with infinite other statements in those languages and that these statements collectively comprise a class of statements that constitute a separate language containing its own unique statement that cannot be derived, . . . and so forth and so on. It’s POETRY GONE WILD! This thing just heads off in every possible direction, like a fireworks display, a multi-multiverse of big bangs, each one a twinkle (a nightlight maybe) in heaven! This QUANTUM UNIVERSE MACHINE is beautiful in design, the METAPHOR MACHINE that describes it an artifact’s artifact. At the same time, the conclusion that the use of language to establish agreement between any two people concerning anything at all must either be impossible or inevitable also seems tenable. The same is the case with disagreement. Given this new information, some of you will undoubtedly want to take the physical multiverse in one hand and your own life in the other and try to compare them. Well, gook luck! Although I personally think that time is a sensory construction and once time is taken out of the equation there is no equation and since time is a relation on events there are no events either, I do wear a watch.