Greg Egan’s short stories “Luminous” and “Dark Integers” explore the possibility that what we think of as “necessary truths” are in fact contingent truths, frozen at some point in the distant past, and exerting a pervasive influence.
Nice stories, but the author didn’t find the optimal solution at the end. The red arithmetic should have kept a second small island with smooth borders, inside which a small blue patch with rough borders were maintained. This would have allowed communications without any risk of war.
Nice stories, but the author didn’t find the optimal solution at the end. The red arithmetic should have kept a second small island with smooth borders, inside which a small blue patch with rough borders were maintained. This would have allowed communications without any risk of war.