My Plans for Next Summer: Starcraft

I don't have any living arrangements for victoria this fall. However i am already planning my living arrangements for next summer.

At the start of this summer, i had the sweetest living arrangements in the history of mankind. I was living in my parents house, eating their food, getting my mom to do my laundry, using their cable and internet. It was the perfect life. I would wake up every day at around noon, get into my bathrobe, then walk around the house and patio with a mug of coffee in my hands. I was a king. But next summer my dad has made it clear that i will not be allowed to live a cushy life like that. He has said that i will need to find a job immediately, else i will be kicked out of the house.

here's where starcraft comes into play. These are pictures of a 1988 starcraft tent trailer. Currently on sale on ebay for $2200. I will simply buy the tent trailer and park it in front of my parents house. When i wake up at noon (by that time they are gone to work), i will enter the housee and commence to making my sandwhiches

Studying the Liminal

The idea of liminality has recently been re-brought to my attention. During school it's a phrase that one of my young and interesting professors likes to use as often as possible, because it applies to a lot of things we cant define and it defines a lot of things we cant define, but mostly it defines things so we can apply them. I hope that helps.

The liminal is essentially, the inbetween. It's a state things occupy that never crosses over into the other. If it helps you, you can think of Schrödinger's cat, which in the theoretical experiment, is either alive, or dead through observation, but both alive and dead through equation. Not only does that rhyme, but it applies to what I'm trying to say, which is that the liminal, like quantum states, is not anything, it is the between state of other states.

What I'd like to apply this to is the universe, and life. Not everything, just those two categories.

Lets start with the universe. I believe that the universe adheres to the multiverse principle, which dictates that every time anything happens, the universe, based on probability (and possibility) is split, and results in the "creation" of another universe. The way that I wrap my mind around this is through this hypothesis: "For a decision to be made based on probability, the output needs to match the input of the equation". So: If I decide to go for a walk, there is an equal probability that I could have decided not to, and for the laws of thermodynamics to account for the lost metaphysical energy it took me to reach this decision, there must be a universe where the other 50% of my decision resulted in the completed loop. In a quantum universe, the result of this decision does not necessarily occur after the decision, but that's something I don't even want to understand.

What really interests me about what I just wrote is that it's hard to reconcile that with anything other than an infinite universe. But: I do not believe the universe is infinite. If the universe started with a matter reaction, then logically, this finite reaction created a finite universe. Furthermore, with recent scientific revelations, we have learned the universe is expanding, and through this we can deduce that an infinite universe cannot expand, or contract. An infinite universe just is. Unless the scientists are wrong, which is fine, because they're probably rich and have nice trophy wives.

So now I've argued myself into a box: how can finite universes create infinite new universes? Easy, think of the Pi constant. It's an infinite number created by finite variables. BUT WAIT! I just proved myself wrong, didn't I? A finite bang can create infinite universes right? Maybe, but lets remember that Pi is just a number and the universe is an actual object, and not a constant. Since the mulitverse is only a theory, I will happily ignore the argument I just lost to myself, and continue with what I was trying to say. Anyways, comparing simple math to quantum physics is not a fair argument, and really means nothing. I just like the Pi metaphor because it works for half of this argument, but not the other half, and yet it works like both, which means this entire essay is almost in a quantum state. Anyhoo.

The universe must have a shape. If it is finite (which it must be) then logically, it can be defined. What shape is the universe? It COULD be spherical, but scientists do not believe the universe expanded uniformly. Just like an explosion on earth VS an explosion in a complete vacuum (sans gravity) we see that the fireball does not form a sphere, but a slightly lumpy one, because of atmospheric conditions and the characteristics of the explosives and whatnot. So if the universe expanded non-uniformly, then logically, it's because of either outside factors (which is really, really interesting, because it implies the universe expanded INSIDE OF SOMETHING), or because it wasn't an even matter ball, which is much more likely. Anyways what I'm trying to say is that the universe has a shape, and therefore a border, and therefore complies to the liminal.

The universe has a border! It must! Even if it's a hazy cloud of semi-universe right at the edge, that is a difference, and that is a border. That is neither universe, nor non-universe. What a trip! What does this mean for science? It means that we need to find that border pronto, because that will show us a space where light is moving into absolute nothingness, and I have a feeling that could be useful to someone.

Later I'll talk about how this liminal property of the universe affects the psychological properties of our own minds.