Debut

Jul 16, 2006 00:38

At last, I have completed my book. I am hoping this will answer a few questions and doubts that people have about my actions. Unfortunately, I only published one copy, and I left it at the library. Please take turns in reading it and be sure to clear your mind before that. This is limited edition knowledge, as the books will disappear along with your memories when the right time comes. Until then, educate yourself.

If I sneeze - will that affect the future? Yes it will. The fact that you are reading this book right now instead of doing anything else is affecting the future in profound ways. Because of your decision - everyone in the future will be different people than they would have been had you made a different choice. These series will explain this concept called "Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition", otherwise known as the "Butterfly Effect". But - I will go beyond that concept to include other concepts like time travel, predicting the future, random events, and free will, and if God has the ability to change his mind if he can see into the future.. After reading these you will never see reality the same way again.

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe the horse was lost;
For want of a horse the rider was lost;
For want of a rider the battle was lost;
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.



VOL. 1
SENSITIVE DEPENDENCE ON INITIAL CONDITION

Does it really matter in the grand scheme of things if I drive a carriage 61 miles per hour or 62? Yes it does. Consider this for a moment. Have you ever approached a mountain path and see a cluster of boulders roll down in front of you and think, "if I were going through this section 1/4 second sooner - these rocks would have killed me." Similarly, you read about mountain accidents where a boulder does fall down and kills the unfortunate person who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. What is the difference between you and them? Well - you were "lucky" enough to live to tell about it. If things were slightly different - you might not be here.

Looking back, you could have been there 1/4 second earlier. Perhaps if someone hadn't cut you off 2 blocks earlier you wouldn't have lost the 1/4 second that saved your life? If the music that you can't get out of your had been a more upbeat tune then you might have galloped slightly faster. Maybe it was the temperature outside. It was cold and it took 1/4 second longer for your horse to warm up. Maybe you saw some attractive woman and you slowed down a little to get a good look. There could have been millions of reason that if changed would have not prevented you from being there 1/4 late and saving you from a deadly boulder. That 1/4 second changed everything.

Now - let's take the opposite example. Let's say you had a friend, a girl you had recently met several years ago. She was helping you clean up an office space you were moving out of. You two were scheduled to work one warm night but she never showed up. Instead - she went to a tavern where some sort of incident occurred and she ran out of the building and failed to look where she was going and stepped into the street where she was instantly killed by an oncoming carriage. Yes, things like this happen all the time.

Obviously had she kept her appointment with you she would not have been killed that night. For that to have happened - everything had to have happened exactly the way it did. Had she been 1/4 second slower - or the carriage been 1/4 second faster - it wouldn't have happened. And if it didn't happen - then a lot of things would have been different - especially for the 5 children she left behind. But everything happened that way it did and because it did - you are reading her story. If it didn't happen - then I suppose I would be using a different example.

Again - getting back to the point - think of the millions of events that had to occur precisely the way it did leading up to her death. For example - suppose she was thinking about the fact that she should have been helping you clean - and that thought caused a slight delay in her schedule. Had she never met you would she be alive today? Actually - probably. You had enough influence on her life to change where she was that night by 1/4 second. But so did a lot of other things.

If she had had one less drink - or one more drink. Or stopped to light a cigarette. If the driver had missed the previous delivery, had been driving in the other lane, had kissed his wife - or not kissed his wife - that would have made the difference. Anything that had changed in the trillions of events leading up to that moment and the event would not have happened.

Every day there are thousands of people who are killed in random events or who barely miss being killed where had thing not happened exactly the way they did it would be different. Every year a certain number of people are killed by things falling from the sky and hitting them. Being inside you house doesn't protect you from that unless you live in a tall concrete castle and not on the top floor. You're there - and a rock from the sky squashes you. If you weren't there - it would have missed.

Now - suppose I change history. Suppose I create an event that randomly shifts everyone 1/4 second some forward - some backward. What would the result be? Well - probably about the same number of people would be killed in these kind of random accidents - but - it wouldn't be the same people. Some of the people who would have been killed will survive near misses, and some of the people who had near misses would have been killed. 1/4 second difference and different people survive and different people die. What would the result of that be? Girl A and Girl B are shifted in time. Originally Girl A dies and Girl B survives a near miss but the shift happens and Girl A has a near miss and Girl B dies. Girl A had no children at that time but she survives and has 10 kids who grow up and produce 35 grandchildren and 100 great grandchildren, all because of a 1/4 second shift in time. Girl B who would have lived dies and she would have had two children, one of which was the one who introduced Hikusaak's parents to each other who otherwise wouldn't have met save for this person. Had they never met - Hikusaak would never have been born and Harmonia would not be as we know it - save for the 1/4 second difference.

Also, I have began working on a database of every invalid here. However, I am certain that I do not have everyone's records, therefore I urge you all to register yourself if you wish to make things easier for me. Especially if you agree with the things in my writings.
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