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Oct. 17th, 2008
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Oct. 17th, 2008 07:19 pmUp to about 3500 words of Chapter 5. I've dried. They have to have a conversation about what they're going to do. How dull. Perhaps a fight scene could break out. Hmm, actually, I think that just solved the problem.
"Do you have the guts?"
Oct. 17th, 2008 07:57 pmOh man, check out Our Cities Must Fight!, a US Civil Defence film from 1951 - apparently before they knew about fallout. If you get bored, fast-forward to the splendidly grim and pessimistic ending.
It's kind of interesting that the message to the public, both before fallout was understood and afterwards, both before intercontinental missiles and afterwards, was not to evacuate. Tens of millions of people are, effectively, an immobile target.
ETA: Bwa!!!! Tragedy or Hope? Damn Communist radical hippies!!! With their long hair and weird clothes and the funny way they speak - oh wait. You have to see this to believe it. Bonus appearance by Captain Jack. Begorrah.
It's kind of interesting that the message to the public, both before fallout was understood and afterwards, both before intercontinental missiles and afterwards, was not to evacuate. Tens of millions of people are, effectively, an immobile target.
ETA: Bwa!!!! Tragedy or Hope? Damn Communist radical hippies!!! With their long hair and weird clothes and the funny way they speak - oh wait. You have to see this to believe it. Bonus appearance by Captain Jack. Begorrah.
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Oct. 17th, 2008 10:07 pmOh! OK! So this symmetry breaking thing in the very early universe - it's a move from a less ordered, more homogenous state, to a more ordered, less homogenous state, right? To a state with more information in it, more entropy. This is roughly analogous - this is how my mind works - to creation stories in which the cosmos begins as a chaos from which arises order, or into which is introduced order. A comparison can be made with the primeval ocean of Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian myth and the directionless soup of which the universe was made in that tiny fraction of a second before it began to freeze and break apart. Crucially, that ocean is inert, inactive, featureless - but full of potential.