MagusStorm Musings
These are the thoughts that percolate through my mind.
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Survival is always possible in a multiverse
The multiverse follows the rules of relativity, where reality is dependent on the observer. It also adheres to the rules of quantum uncertainty, exemplified in Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. There are two parts to this: the individual observing is also being observed by other observers, and they can observe you both dying and living simultaneously.…
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How Soon is Now
How soon is now? It is not just a great song by the Smiths it is truly a subjective experience dependent on many factors the observer rarely notices. It is a very slippery concept because as soon as you notice it, it is past. I used to think it was as small of a measurement…
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Crumpled Photographs
When I was still quite young, before I learned of relativity or could tell time on a clock, I crumpled up a photograph because I was young and destructive, but I remember feeling bad for the person in the photograph and how rude of me to crumple them up. I then wondered what they were…
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Observational Big Bangs!
The physical universe has been theorized and discussed as being both a never-ending infinite ‘space’ and as something that has had a beginning, a la the Big Bang theories. But as we build telescopes that peer deeper and deeper into space, we find more and more space. Space in spaces there shouldn’t be space yet,…
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Physical vs Observable universes
If the physical universe is expanding, regions of it far enough away will expand faster than light can travel thus creating a ‘cosmological event horizon’ within which is the observable universe floating around like a bubble in a warehouse. Current tools do not provide us a way to measure or even see anything beyond the…
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Hello world!
Welcome to MagusStorm, a idea I had that began sometime around 1994. I had finished serving in the Air Force and soon after started college and began to get more into computers since I had always had a knack with other people’s computers, and it seemed quite a scholastically easy pursuit, I also needed to…