“Bread crumbs”(perhaps how you got here)

In Douglas Adams’ wonderful works that began with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there is the notion of the “infinite improbability drive”. I must brag that I had thought of a notion like this long before I came across Adams’ work, and I would bet that I am not by any means the only person that could make this claim honestly.

”Alternating Reality” deals with another treatment of probability, perhaps more sinister. And it raises the following question: is the sort of time we experience in the World we know truly a continuum, as we were taught, or is it perhaps merely a well-done, tautly structured digitization of some kind? This might be important, for if it were digital, someone might devise a way to manipulate the digital data.

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