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Professor Askew
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Thanks, Dan! I'll be back after I finish reading.
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Erik
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Thanks! It was nice to read! 
| RAWA wrote: | The “Great Tree of Possibilities” was a great strength in the Art of Writing. Since there are so many possibilities, any description that could be written existed somewhere in the Tree. However, this was also one of the Art’s greatest weaknesses. Regardless of how detailed a Writer’s Age description was, there were countless Ages on the Tree that matched it - and there’s a chaotic element (random, beyond the Writer’s control) as to which of the matching Ages a written Book will link to.
For the most part, this limitation didn’t cause many problems. After all, if two Ages are similar enough that you can’t tell the difference between them, it usually wouldn’t matter which one was selected. But there are times when the ability to Write a link to a specific “instance” of an Age could be extremely useful.
And that’s where Yeesha’s “power” comes in. Yeesha is the only known Writer in all of D’ni history that seems to have an innate talent to control which of the matching Ages will be selected. An example of how powerful this talent can be was shown in Uru and in the second expansion for Uru (The Path of the Shell), where she demonstrates the ability to link to two specific and distinct versions of what appears to be the same Age. |
That also explains why everyone has "his/her own" Teledahn/Kemo/Gira/Gahreesen, doesn't it?  |
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Rils
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| Erik wrote: | | That also explains why everyone has "his/her own" Teledahn/Kemo/Gira/Gahreesen, doesn't it? |
Good call... Cuz every one of ours is slightly differnt. bridge up, bridge down, elevators on differnt floors, etc. Even our Reltos are differnt - even if we all have the same pages turned on, if nothing else there are different clothes missing from our closets! I hadn't thought about it in quite that way before...
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Erik
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| So, we could never meet Douglas Sharper in our Teledahn... only in the "original" instance... |
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Daedalus
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| Erik wrote: | | So, we could never meet Douglas Sharper in our Teledahn... only in the "original" instance... |
Well, actually... |
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janaba1
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That was really fascinating!!! Wow!!! 
I could go on reading eternally about the
"Quantum Theory" and the "Parallel Universes"...
and "The Great Tree of Possibilities"
| RAWA wrote: | What the D’ni seemed to have concluded (proved?) though, is that those probability waves don’t cease to exist altogether, instead each possibility continues to exist in an alternate quantum reality (read “parallel universe”), until a state is observed in that quantum reality, and the possibilities not observed in that quantum reality continue to exist in still another quantum reality, and so on ad infinitum. This means that every possible combination of quantum events since the creation of the universe exists in a quantum reality somewhere. The D’ni called this “The Great Tree of Possibilities”...
... The Art of Writing allows observation of (thus locking of) and travel to those quantum realities...
... The “Great Tree of Possibilities” was a great strength in the Art of Writing. Since there are so many possibilities, any description that could be written existed somewhere in the Tree... |
I think I've read something like that in the books of the Kings,
cause I still didn't read the Novels...
Loved to read that and contemplating about it...
Thanks for posting dcosgrove
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