From: Osher Doctorow on
From Osher Doctorow

By analogy with the Artificial Intelligence Language LISP, but with
some additions/modifications, let us define the list (A, B) as
follows:

1) (A, B) = P ' (A-->B) = 1 + P(B) - P(A), where P(B) < = P(A).

The Erasure EN(A, B) erases the first element A of (A, B) by replacing
A by the Null Set N:

2) EN(A, B) = (N, B) = 1

The Erasure E1(A, B) is like EN(A, B) except that N is replaced by a
set of Probability 0, which will be written 1 for simplicity although
1_i for some integer or real subscript i would be more accurate. We
have:

3) E1(A, B) = 1

Let us identify Erasure of either type (or one) with Gravitational
Collapse as with black holes, which Erases a 3 dimensional or 3+1
dimensional star A and replaces it with a lower dimensional black hole
identified with a 2-dimensional surface; and B is taken to be
Inflation or Superluminality. This is clearer in (3).

If this "machinery" is correct, then a Civilization near the onset
(Gravitational Collapse) of a black hole would arguably experience
Superluminality and might "harness" it.

Osher Doctorow

From: Osher Doctorow on
From Osher Doctorow

I made a typo, since 0 rather than1 refers to sets of probability 0.
So below (2), E1(A, B) should be E0(A, B), and sets of probability 0
should be written 0 or 0_i (0 is simpler if no confusion is
possible). (3) is still correct with the modification since E0(A, B)
= 1.

Osher Doctorow