Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 239
(that is the word used) to one value, like Joyce's I, after a measurement has
been taken—which is why most quantum physicists say the universe is "in
every possible state" before we measure it. The Hidden Variable theory says
that what determines the resultant I is the non-local hidden variable which
they write c, and which seems to be totally isomorphic to Joyce's
Those who deny the Hidden Variable must conclude, as Erwin
Schrodinger demonstrated with mathematical precision, that both values of
the state vector co-exist and thus that a cat may be dead and alive at the
same time. Since 1 have explained this Schroedinger's Cat paradox at length
in other works—including my three volume science-fiction comedy,
Schroedinger's Cat—I will only mention here that FW is isomorphic to that
model also, since Finnegan is both dead and ?live all through the book.
(In a deeper sense, every word in FW is like Schrodinger's Cat in that the
state vector of the whole system gives it a minimum of two values. Joyce's
"chaosmos," for instance has the two values, "chaos" and "cosmos"; his
"washup" on the book's last page—I sink I'd die down over his feet, humbly
dumbly, only to washup—has the two minimum values of housework and
worship, with a hidden value, in context, which contains Mary Magdalene
washing the feet of Jesus as a form of worship; etc.)
As Dr. John S. Bell has pointed out, if there is a nonlocal hidden variable,
or a set of nonlocal hidden variables, they will function the same in any
cross-section of space-time that we examine. This is what inspired Dr.
Bohm's hologram model of the universe, in which any bit contains the
information of the whole. Joyce seems to be prescientifically anticipating this
hologram model by writing FW in what I have called hologrammic prose, in
which any dozen words, analyzed in full, turn out to include the whole
structure of the book in miniature.
Joyce was paying close attention to modern physics while writing FW. On
page 51 he alludes to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle:
that sword of certainty which would identifide the body never falls
On pages 149-168, there is lengthy dissertation on "the dime-cash
problem" or why Earwicker did not give any money to the Cad in the park,
which is simultaneously a discourse on "the time-space problem" or the time
and space theories of Einstein, amusingly called "Winestain." Within this
long oration, the Mookse and the Gripes debate Catholicism versus its
derivative heresies at length, but the Papa! Mookse is not only a or Abel
figure but is clearly identified as space (he lives "eins within a space" instead
of "once upon a time" and being the Pope lives in Room and/or Rum which
play Rome against German Raum, space). The Gripes, meanwhile, is Cain,
the Gnostics, a figure, and a defender of both Einstein and Joyce. On one
level the debate is about space-oriented arts like painting ( ) in opposition