Hi sweetie,
Part of this month?s journal is on the kids? hard drive. I hooked this one up on St. Patrick?s day, going on the assumption that it would work because of ?the luck of the Irish? and I am most certainly Irish. Well, my luck has more of a tendency toward Murphy, though.
I took the kids to see ?The Time Machine? on St. Pat?s day. I didn?t especially want to go to a movie but I thought it would be good to go out and do something with the kids. I never read the book H.G. Welles wrote so I was altogether surprised that the whole reason the scientist built the machine was so that he could somehow save his fiancee from being killed. He couldn?t, though, and he didn?t understand WHY. I think Billy sort of ?got it? although I was a little confused. Billy said that if the woman did NOT die then the scientist would NOT build the time machine and all the rest wouldn?t happen.
I thought about that. I remembered Schrodinger?s cat and parallel universes and fate and all that stuff and actually had a good discussion with Billy about it. I think Heidi and Kristin couldn?t really follow it. There might be a world in which the fiancee did NOT die, and that would be yet another parallel universe. In some of the others she WOULD die and there would be different outcomes. What I wonder is, Rich, you died in THIS universe. Is there another universe where you DID NOT die?or does your ?counterpart/twinner? have to die in all the universes?
Maybe the Presbyterians were right with the predestination stuff?