The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
Page 51
by John Joseph Adams
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3. Theology hopes for local boundedness, but as yet this remains unproven.
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4. A poetic simplification to describe a quantum event affecting neural perception.
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5. This too is a poetic simplification.
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6. S = k log W, which is to say, entropy is directly related to the number of states of a system. If we somehow could perceive all the possible microscopic states of the universe, S would be constant.
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7. Imagine, say, a boy forming the icy shards of reason into a picture of eternity. The metaphor is not inadequate.
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The Robots of Eden
1. An English author, noted for her charming upper-class romances.
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