tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post35227003678881060..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: The Future is EntropyCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-27703379461583824172008-07-07T15:23:00.000-04:002008-07-07T15:23:00.000-04:00You know, that article crept into my sleep last ni...You know, that article crept into my sleep last night, and I am not at all satisfied with the multiverse explanation: it just seems like what he has done is to identify an unlikelihood, have a hard time explaining it, and then NOT explain it by pushing it off into an undiscovered realm (this universe is an intrusion or obtrusion or whatever of some more sensical multiverse). I still don't get why time can't flow backwards -- I mean, I understand why humans can't experience that backward flow, but if time is as substantial as space, why can't it be backwards traversable?<BR/><BR/>But I'm just an English PhD so I leave it to those who have access to particle accelerators to answer.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-13082526651940244002008-07-07T09:50:00.000-04:002008-07-07T09:50:00.000-04:00You see, this is the moment where I want to be sna...You see, this is the moment where I want to be snarky and say "but the time is out of joint!"<BR/><BR/>I wonder though if it's really that simple. Yes, the milk disperses into the coffee, illustrating disorder and entropy. But the do the molecules change irrevocably? Or are there milk molecules in with the coffee molecules? <BR/><BR/>Plus I wonder what it means when little pieces of the past move forward in time (texts, objects). <BR/><BR/>Okay, back to the archives, while dreaming of my multiverse self who's in charge of an empire...Mary Kate Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14892991966276345782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-79423135454308962622008-07-07T04:22:00.000-04:002008-07-07T04:22:00.000-04:00Of their summer reading I have just started Colin ...Of their summer reading I have just started Colin Renfrew's <I>Prehistory: the making of the human mind</I>. Maybe I'll report back in a few train journey's time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41610022936845023242008-07-06T13:04:00.000-04:002008-07-06T13:04:00.000-04:00I hate sherry. Can it be a martini? Okay, I'm real...I hate sherry. Can it be a martini? Okay, I'm really signing off now. I have to crash. Good luck [and great thanks, as always] for all that pro bono *bono* work you do!Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-6376892270040177082008-07-06T12:55:00.000-04:002008-07-06T12:55:00.000-04:00Making jokes about the Sahlins-Obeyesekere conflic...Making jokes about the Sahlins-Obeyesekere conflict about deification, desire, and culture bound thinking: hey that sounds smart and intellectual to me.<BR/><BR/>OK, maybe it's just pretentious. Would it help if we were swirling our sherries as we made such obscure allusions passing as humor?<BR/><BR/>Have fun in Leeds, Eileen, and I will finish that P&T letter I've been working on since 9 AM.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-37962948484855548812008-07-06T12:15:00.000-04:002008-07-06T12:15:00.000-04:00But I'm jet-lagged, Jeffrey, and super-cheeky is b...But I'm jet-lagged, Jeffrey, and super-cheeky is beyond me at the moment. The best I can do is cheeky. Hey, aren't we supposed to talk about smart, intellectual stuff around here?Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-47503953428888697772008-07-06T11:20:00.000-04:002008-07-06T11:20:00.000-04:00Now if you wanted to be super-cheeky you'd have sa...Now if you wanted to be super-cheeky you'd have said that it was in fact Gananath Obeyesekere who was being worshiped as a god in this alternate universe, much against his will, and perhaps with Sahlins as a grinning acolyte, or better the priest charged with strapping him to the shark-bound bark ...Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-91363228779579462082008-07-06T11:12:00.000-04:002008-07-06T11:12:00.000-04:00At the very least, I can promise that Marshall Sah...At the very least, I can promise that Marshall Sahlins will write a book about you. He's here, too, doing field work.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45992576630808538142008-07-06T11:08:00.000-04:002008-07-06T11:08:00.000-04:00I will take what I can get. Perhaps after my sacri...I will take what I can get. Perhaps after my sacrifice at sea and attendant ingestion I will emerge from the shark's belly with unheard of new powers.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe not. Still, I can dream.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-25553529681611676562008-07-06T11:05:00.000-04:002008-07-06T11:05:00.000-04:00Jeffrey: I happen to be in that other part of the ...Jeffrey: I happen to be in that other part of the multiverse right now and I want you to know that we *are* worshiping you as a god. The only problem is, our rites of worship here involve slathering you with fish oil, tying you to a bark, and setting you out in shark-infested waters. Sorry, but that's how we do things here in this part of the multiverse. But you are a god. Be rest assured.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com