[MD] Uncertainty

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Seems that you assume in your scenario that atoms and other inorganic 
patterns (physical laws) are permanent.

[Arlo]
Hardly. My guess is that there will come a "time" when the inorganic 
level will no longer exist.

[Platt]
Seems in this scenario that there will always be patterns of one sort 
or another. In fact, the more you give examples, the more it seems 
everything doesn't change.

[Arlo]
Hardly. The more examples I give, the more you search for linguistic 
paradox in my words. Kudos! You'll find it!! Amazing!! Who'd'a thunk that!!!

[Platt]
Perhaps you can come up with some examples of "everything changes" in 
which something permanent doesn't have to be acknowledged.

[Arlo]
Nothing is permanent. Only various degrees of stability.

[Platt]
Further, perhaps you can explain how the score of Penn State's last 
football game will change. . Wasn't in Penn State 31, Temple 6?

[Arlo]
Scores have been changed in the past, upon review, it is not 
unprecedented. Who am I to say that in a decade, a year, a century, a 
review board won't examine footage and re-record the score as 
something different? Moreover, the "score" as an social pattern will 
cease to exist entirely one day. I mean, I am sure there are scores 
from thousands of games in human history that are no longer known, 
whose records have disappeared... In a thousand years, ten thousand?...

Some times things do not change, perceptibly, over eons. Its a matter 
of focus and zoom. The sun, when examined at the molecular level, is 
a writhing ocean of flux. When examined as our inter-solar system 
center, it appears to be "unchanging" over billions of years. The 
Rockie Mountains are in a constant state of erosion, but they will (I 
hope!) be around for a long time to come (I have my doubts about 
people being around to enjoy them, though)... But, on the massive 
scale of the universe, the "Rockies" exist only in the "blink of an 
eye", even though to someone living there, they "seem" unchanging 
over many, many years...