To: Rec.Arts.Tv
From: deb@jloda.cci.com (How Now Brown Cow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL Super String Theory of Quantum Leaping
Date: 20 Feb 92 18:42:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Consoles Incorporated



		Superstring Theory & Quantum Leaping
		Written by: kingleon@humvax.UUCP (Kaptan Klingon)
		2/24/90
Submitted for Consideration


Much has been made about the nature of Quantum Leaping, the hit
ratio of Dr. Becket, and the lifetime range of the phenomenon.
Some have even thrown up their temporal hands and claimed that
God is loading the dice in Quantum Leaping.

   I propose the following interpretation of the superstring
theory of leaping:  In Dr. Becket's original study of 1993/1957
he suggests that a person's lifetime is like a string.
Conciousness travels along this string in a linear fashion,
though the phenomenon of remembering (in certain forms) is a form
of Quantum Leaping to the past, and prescience a form of leaping
into the future.  What Dr. Becket has done is to release the
anchor to the present, loosening the tension on his own string.

   If that were all that were happening one would expect Dr.
Becket to travel only to points in his own past along his own
string.  However the threads of our lives are intermingled so
that it is possible that once separated from his own lifeline Dr.
Becket could easily join the lifeline of any other individual.
That Dr. Becket experiences only one other lifeline at a time
(defining time as a stream of consciousness) is due to the
quantum nature of the phenomenon - he in effect tunnels from one
superstring to another.

    When leaping Dr. Becket experiences a bounce effect - while
attracted to some lifelines he tends to bounce around through
time, often for several days, without latching on until he
reaches one lifeline involved in a crisis situation.  I propose
that crisis situations act as strange attractors - to employ the
superstring notion, they are tangles in the web.  Dr. Becket
would simply not be attracted to non-crisis lifelines.  Nor could
he enter the lifetime at a point of maximum crisis - the web is
too dense - he would latch on to any lifeline in the crisis
tangle several days or hours before the actual crisis takes
place.

   I would also like to address myself to the release phenomenon.
Many are of the opinion that Dr. Becket is only released upon
doing a good deed.  However, several of the releases from
lifetimes have occured due to relatively minor acts - removing a
cat from a tree, making a suggestion to a singer etc.  If leaping in
can be viewed as being caught in a tangle, leaping out can be
viewed as a release.  Having passed the moment of crisis
(resolved the tangle), Dr. Becket is ready to leap.  However it
may require one additional smoothing of the web to allow the
release, just as a single crystal can suddenly freeze a
supercooled liquid, or a small perturbation can suddenly disturb
a dynamic system.  (See Mandelbrot, B. on fractal behaviour,
superstrings and Quantum Leaping, Nature, Aug, 1997.)

I would of course like to claim first publication of this theory,
but I am at a disadvantage as that Dr. Becket himself has the
opportunity to republish it prior to this publication, and has
every right to since he probably thought of this first, even if
he came up with this several years from now.
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