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Mostly, it’s conjecture:

Just about every explanation of how the “alternate universe” theory works describes a sort of bifurcation between two universes that resolve quantum events in different ways, as if the single event creates two completely disjoint universes.  I would suggest that there are any number of intersecting and overlapping sets of events that seem like universes from the viewpoint of those perceiving them.   After all, at the quantum level, it’s not the events that are perceived (as I understand it) as much as it is the outcomes. As events are perceived from different trajectories from different viewpoints (in this case, from different points of view)…

Damn.  I’m not really finding the words.  There was a bunch more that I had, including a concept of “Conservation of Events,” in which points of resolution would be distributed amongst possible “continuum sets,” but either my vocabulary isn’t big enough or I’ve forgotten part of the images that came to me this morning.

Suffice to say, though, it’s ingenious.  If you’re a quantum physicist, perhaps you can help me figure out what I’m trying to say about event clouds and such.  Argh.  I’ll try to return to this when I can figure out what I was imagining this morning.

IF-X Volume 2, Issue #4: Social Intercourse

So, the new book is in, and now, it’s in stores throughout Michigan;  I’ve just got Flint to hit (two stores there carry us) and Green Brain (which I’m visiting tonight), and I’ll be done.  The problem with having only two titles, though, is that they don’t occupy much “real estate” in a store–there’s very little visibility amongst the hundreds of titles by our larger competitors.  It’s for this reason that we have to rely on our retailers.

We need the retailers themselves to look at our products, read them, and tell their customers how good they are.  At the very least, we need the retailers to point their customers our way, saying, “Hey, we have these new books!” and tell their employees to do the same.  Without this, nobody even knows to look for our comics.  Sadly, some store owners don’t seem to see this, and after buying the books, they just languish on a shelf instead of being displayed prominently.

If we had the multimillion dollar advertising accounts that our competitors do, we wouldn’t need this type of “hand up.”  Then again, if we had that kind of money, we would also have dozens more books out, and we wouldn’t have to worry about paying the light bill.

Help us out, will you?  Look out for us little guys and help us out this Christmas.

Dear Spammers,

I appreciate that you want to post thousands of links at no costs to yourselves in a desperate effort to bring money to your business (or worse, steal people’s identities so that you can do illegal things decided on only by your greed), but any time you try to post them to a Yovia blog, they go to a “safe area” where I get the joy of moderating your comments by labelling as spam, at which point they disappear into oblivion.  I also have to thank you for being so utterly blatant about it by putting little to no actual message content in it–just links with keywords attached, like “free sex porn kids puppies xxx” (and I really don’t want to follow any of those links!).  Just so you know, there are add-ons to my browser that also protect me from going to websites that have a tendency toward information theft or farming, unsafe data practices, or downloading viruses.  Your stuff isn’t getting anywhere.  Sorry.

Given that, please stop posting your comments unless you’re sincere in your response.  Anything else is going to be safely moderated into oblivion.  It’s a waste of your time and mine.

Sincerely,

Michael Marcus