> So, what do you think? Local bubble? Another universe? Matrix glitch?
This sort of thing happens from time to time: photographs look different, gentlemen disappear when they walk around carriages, friends dispute our most vivid memories... Sometimes it really does seem like the universe has changed when we weren't looking. But in every case, isn't it simpler and more plausible to go with the hypothesis that we might be mistaken, not in possession of all the facts, or simply misunderstanding the situation? I don't know about you, but I make dozens of mistakes every day, so when there's an apparent "glitch" like this and I have to weigh the possibility that I'm remembering things wrong, versus the idea that the universe itself has been altered in a mysterious way - well, the first possibility seems far more likely than the second. Which isn't to say that the act of observation can't have an effect on the thing being observed. That kind of weirdness happens all the time on the quantum level, but it gets averaged out when you scale up to the regular universe that we interact with. Kevin Street _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
