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[scienceexplains.livejournal.com]

The fact that some people here are familiar with the stories of others suggests that this world isn't necessarily the actual one. Each of our worlds was fictional with respect to the others. I have yet to meet anyone I recognize, but I take it that in some of your worlds, I was fictional.  That doesn't prove that my world was any more fictional than any other. Moreover, nothing I've seen so far indicates that this world has any special ontological status; its only special feature would appear to be the presence of the portal. From the point of view of my world, this world could also be said to be fictional.

If we accept - as many of us seem to - that we have been transported to a world other than our own, it still doesn't follow that this world must be the real one. The worlds may not be organized hierarchically.

I expect that others here may already have formed similar conclusions, and if so, I apologize for restating already accepted theories. If anyone has any further evidence for or against what I've said, I'd be delighted to hear it.

Comments

[robotsexual.livejournal.com]

Now that is just hot.

[scienceexplains.livejournal.com]

I should have been more specific. If anyone has anything substantive to add, I'd be interested to hear it.

[robotsexual.livejournal.com]

I think you're right but any substantive evidence to support your hypotheses is going to be impossible without getting close to the portal. A lot of us come from worlds where magic is a fact or at least based on physical laws that don't exist here, since so far it seems impossible to do any kind of magic that's not already part of an inherent ability. So the portal probably isn't magic and therefore is based on good old-fashioned science, only there's the whole thing of learning everything that qualifies as old here. But if we know what makes the portal tick, then we know what they know including whether there's proof that we're fake. That acceptable, Agent Scully?

[scienceexplains.livejournal.com]

It's a start.

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

There are other ways of passing through worlds, you know.

[scienceexplains.livejournal.com]

What are you thinking of? (You're Lyra, right? I'm Dana.)

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

A knife, a lot of energy, awful things mostly.

Yep, I'm Lyra Silvertongue. It's nice to meet you.

[scienceexplains.livejournal.com]

It's nice to meet you, too, Lyra.

Have you ever moved between worlds that way?

[truthmeasurer.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

[lickthatdevil.livejournal.com]

it's all greek to me.