See here.
When Everard remarks that Denison has "'...a knack for getting caught...'" (The Shield Of Time, p. 362) -
- Denison wonders, "'Has it been entirely coincidence?'" (ibid.)
We are back in the territory of the previous post so will we get an answer to: "What would a coincidence be if it were not an accident?"?
Denison continues, "'I'm no physicist, but I have read and heard something about quantum probability fields, temporal nexuses.'" (ibid.)
Is the word "quantum" being overused as an explanation? It may be cropping up in slightly different contexts. The phrase, "...temporal nexuses...," tells us nothing but a "probability field," with or without the "quantum," might be a field that does not directly cause a particular kind of event but that does make that kind of event more probable. (If someone is hungry, then he is more likely to be irritable but is not causally determined to behave irritably on any given occasion.)
Everard inwardly expresses the same idea in homelier terms:
"Don't worry whether chance has made you a gun loaded with trouble, always cocked on a hair trigger." (ibid.)
Does Everard's metaphor have any theoretical basis? Yes, apparently. Everard inwardly continues, "I'm not well up on the theory of that myself." (ibid.)
There is more but this time I need to pause for oneness with the timeless, i.e., meditation.
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