That’s all that I meant.

Only a very few nations would not fit such a constraint.

That would be “string theory”. I think I need better glasses.

But I was not sirius, anyway.

Afterwards?

But remember, Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

(I like though the concept of lunar “stone” age technology, there is a handful juicy prime targets I have on my mind)

He did read into the shroedingers cat paradox somewhat more than is there, he’s not the first, he’s not the last. It’s not that the cat is both alive and dead, it’s just that we don’t know which option is the case. By looking, we don’t collapse the wave function, bare beary Barry Ogabe — he’s the 0 ne.

That may or may not be true, but how can we possibly keep these promises to the boomers when they didn’t have enough children and didn’t save enough?

Hyperinflation? That’s the same as defaulting on everything.

Territorial expansion? We could pay the boomers back by stealing wealth from someone else. Don’t think they’ll take to kindly to that though.

There’s another method of territorial expansion – taking land that belongs to no one, like say L4/L5 or the moon. i think space colonization is the ultimate way out of this. Unfortunately our leaders are not that visionary.

“Unfortunately Aristotle and quantum mechanics don’t agree. At the quantum level something can “be” and “not be” at the same time.”

Your understanding of quantum mechanics is different from mine. Let me rewrite your second sentence: “At the quantum level something can exist and not exist at the same time.”

Without intending to give offence, Justin, I tell you that your statement is nonsense. It stands logic on its head.

It is impossible to go into much detail in a forum like this but I will try to point you in the right direction.

Just because things are in a continual state of transition doesn’t mean that they don’t have a set of defining characteristics at any point in time. One may be uncertain of what these characteristics are, indeed, it may not even be possible to know what these characteristics are but you may be sure that they exist.

If you have any respect for logic, Justin, you must re-examine your views on this matter.