Third Thesis | [Written]
[Ingrid is at that stage of recovery where she is feeling well enough to be bored, but not well enough to do much of anything about it. So she has a question for you, Luceti:]
Have you ever met someone here who was a fictional character in your world?
[Almost as an afterthought, she signs her name. This is hardly as official as last time, but she ( Read more... )
Have you ever met someone here who was a fictional character in your world?
[Almost as an afterthought, she signs her name. This is hardly as official as last time, but she ( Read more... )
Oswald told me that in his world, all cartoons are alive in some sense, though he has no real knowledge of how this occurs other than the fact that this certain studio drew him. (It is quite amazing how he is aware of this fact himself.)
[Robert actually really wants to do analysis on Oswald if Oswald won't mind. Of course it would be up to the rabbit whether he was comfortable with it or not, but Robert is beyond fascinated by the possibilities of looking at Oswald under PET or fMRI.]
I find this extremely fascinating. Perhaps it has something to do with this phenomenon?
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[That's up there with the weirdest thing she's heard today.]
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[It strikes Robert as incredibly interesting, and certainly goes some way towards this fictional-characters-somehow-being-real thing.]
You don't suppose that this could be a manifestation of multiversal theory? Perhaps, in some multiverse, we are fictional ourselves.
I am not certain how this would work, though.
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I suppose it's not impossible. Though how exactly we are observed by the writers in other worlds remains beyond me.
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And there may be some kind of information bleeding or transfer between multiverses. Perhaps as a subset of quantum entanglement... [Robert is so humongously fascinated by this question, if only because it seems to have potential to revolutionize multiversal theory, but it might also be a way to get data home if he could do anything with it.
Ingrid might notice some complex mathematical scrawl being put into the journal almost absentmindedly before Robert stops.]
Ah, my apologies. I was simply trying to calculate the likelihood of the effects.
This is not my field, though, so it is relatively difficult to have a coherent idea of all the factors involved.
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[Ingrid just smiles and starts doodling a little around the math.]
This is very advanced mathematics. I'm not even sure some of this is known in my time.
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[That surprises him a bit. Also the doodles are cute and might remind him of Mike doing the same.] Truly? This math is fairly standard in my time.
Of course, there is a significant difference in our time periods, which might explain it.
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Yes, I'm fairly certain I've never seen that [She circles a bit of an equation.] right there. And this [Another circle.] hasn't even come close to being proven yet.
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There are still some equations that have not been completely formalized under modern calculus, but mathematicians were coming close to some sort of resolution on the issue.
I wonder how different other areas of knowledge are in our worlds.
[He will educate you, Ingrid. Maybe.]
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She'd be happy to educate you too, Robert. On all kinds of subjects.]
Well, there are apparently no werewolves or vampires in your world. That seems so strange to me, a whole subspecies of human just... not existing.
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It is strange, but unfortunately, besides Homo sapiens sapiens, which is the subspecies I belong to, other subspecies of hominids are as of present extinct.
I wonder what caused the evolution, or survival, of certain hominid subspecies in some worlds and not others?
[This is a fascinating question. ... Ingrid's good at asking fascinating questions, really.]
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That's one of the things we're trying to figure out in my research back home, actually. As of yet there are many theories as to why vampires and werewolves evolved the way they did, and none have even come close to being proven.
I'm... doing my thesis on that, actually.
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[Robert is the only person who could think of Luceti as a research opportunity.]
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Of course! That's a great idea!
[Next post: inspired.]
Of course, it will be difficult doing the genetic side of things, but I'm sure I can learn a lot through observation and questioning.
Have you met any here?
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He was a perfectly nice person when I spoke to him, though. But he was dangerous at some point, at least according to Giles. I am not certain if that is a usual circumstance or if it was unusual - I might need to speak to Giles again or even Mr. Bliss if he would be amicable to it.
[Yep, that sounds sane and logical right there. Though to Robert, it doesn't seem that far-fetched.]
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[Ingrid's vampires are even more cuddly than the Cullens.]
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