Quanta And Gods

I will have to read the entire 677-page The Anthropic Cosmological Principle because I want to try to get to the bottom of this issue and because it is relevant to Poul Anderson's "Requiem for a Universe," Harvest of Stars Tetralogy and Genesis. Unfortunately, quantum mechanical technicalities will intrude so I will not understand everything. Like Socrates, I am a conceptual philosopher, not a natural philosopher.

I might also reread The King of Ys by Poul and Karen Anderson although we have been all the way through that Tetralogy on this blog at least twice before. It is long and good and we are bound to find things to say about it that we do not remember having said before. The Tetralogy represents an earlier conceptual stage when people responded to ultimate realities by personifying them as the Three of Ys, the Olympians, Mithras and the new God born in the age of Augustus. The Nine Witch-Queens of Ys recognized that the heavens were changing.

Anderson's Time Patrol agents travel between eras:

"...a youth killed a bull, and the Bull was the Sun and the Man...

"...peasants readied sacrifice to an Earth Mother who was old in this land when the Aryans came, and that was in a dark predawn past. 

"...the mountains, haunted by wolf, lion, boar, and demon. It was too alien a place.

"...he wanted suddenly to run and hide, up to his own century and his own people and a forgetting."

-Poul Anderson, "Brave To Be A King" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 55-112 AT 7, p. 92.

"'They don't have our kind of Weltanschauung, remember. To them, the world isn't entirely governed by laws of nature; it's capricious, changeable, magical.'

"And they're fundamentally right, aren't they? The chill struck deeper into Everard."

-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" IN Time Patrol, pp. 229-331 AT p. 254.

More to come but I am being cut off.