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>From: tbmg9061@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas B MacIukenas)
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Subject: Re: Putting the pratice effect to work
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Date: 30 Jun 92 15:13:42 GMT
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szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:

>In article <1992Jun29.060742.4765@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:

>>[Dave Brin, _The Practice Effect_]

>>look like with this strange reversal of usual physixcs.

>I don't see how mere "reversal" would arrive at such laws.
>There is a large dose of teleology here -- the objects seem to "know" 
>what constitutes "better", and have some way of altering their very 
>atomic structures to fit it.  Does Brin go into any detail about how 
>he has altered our universe's physical laws to arrive at this effect?

No, in fact he doesn't explain it at all (I believe he just wanted to
concentrate on the story).  However, the practice effect doesn't occur
in our universe, but in another one which the characters reach through
an alternate-reality machine.
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