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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 2337851" data-attributes="member: 10913">My personal favorite is the Many Worlds, One Mind interpertation of Quantum Mechanics. Basically, it means that the world constantly &quot;multiplies&quot; into different options according to the possible observations (&quot;did the arrow go right or left?&quot;), but that Mind, consciousness, perceives only one path. The trick to magic, then, is to be able to control which path our mind - and reality - takess. This leads to a psionics-flavored magic, which easily affects delicate and random phenomenon (including modern computers, and even more so quantum computers).I think it is best depicted in Dune. For example, the jumping technology is random there, just enlarging and going through a random wormhole essentially, but the Navigator surveys the possible results and chooses the one fitting the ship's destination.As for your higher-dimensions suggestion, I am afraid I have no more ideas, except that you may want to take it theologically. Different branes may be more perfect (Celestial) with higher dimensions, and are all after all mere projections of the one, M-theory, truth. In contrast low-dimensional universes will be more corrupt, and low-dimensional beings infernal. (This puts us, with 4 dimesnions out of 11, fairly low.) Hell, the most defile part of the multiverse, is a 1-dimensional sheer existence (no space) of insufferable pain.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 2337851, member: 10913"] My personal favorite is the Many Worlds, One Mind interpertation of Quantum Mechanics. Basically, it means that the world constantly "multiplies" into different options according to the possible observations ("did the arrow go right or left?"), but that Mind, consciousness, perceives only one path. The trick to magic, then, is to be able to control which path our mind - and reality - takess. This leads to a psionics-flavored magic, which easily affects delicate and random phenomenon (including modern computers, and even more so quantum computers). I think it is best depicted in Dune. For example, the jumping technology is random there, just enlarging and going through a random wormhole essentially, but the Navigator surveys the possible results and chooses the one fitting the ship's destination. As for your higher-dimensions suggestion, I am afraid I have no more ideas, except that you may want to take it theologically. Different branes may be more perfect (Celestial) with higher dimensions, and are all after all mere projections of the one, M-theory, truth. In contrast low-dimensional universes will be more corrupt, and low-dimensional beings infernal. (This puts us, with 4 dimesnions out of 11, fairly low.) Hell, the most defile part of the multiverse, is a 1-dimensional sheer existence (no space) of insufferable pain. [/QUOTE]

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