A Radical Hypothesis…
As I gazed quietly at a Tulip in Denmans Garden (no apostrophe, apparently) I found myself tempted by a radical hypothesis: that there is actually only one Tulip; one Immortal Tulip.
Certainly, there used to be many millions of them, dotted all around the world, but I suspect that at some point in the last few decades, they came together in a sort of Tulip Conclave, discussed the possibilities of the future for Tulip-kind, decided that it all looked a bit ‘same old, same old’ and, sticking two fingers up to the material world, they promptly coalesced into a single unified energy-based entity… and moved on.
You can do that, allegedly, the coalescing bit, if there are enough of you having the same idea at the same time.
But how, I hear you ask, can we still see acres of Tulips wherever we look, if that is the case?
Simple, says I: as a courtesy to the millions of Tulip lovers around the world, the Immortal Tulip just rapidly changes its position and appearance a few trillion times every second so that it gives the impression that everything is as it was; sort of like a film at the cinema which runs at only 24 frames per second but gives the appearance of real life, complete with smooth, natural motion. This seemingly frantic activity actually costs the Immortal Tulip almost nothing in terms of energy and time, as it now has direct access to the power network of an entire Universe, and, it still gets to bathe in the admiration of the Bees and other onlookers.
However, given that the Immortal Tulip now lives at the speed of light, and given that it only takes a few billionths of every second to perform all of that jumping around, the real question is, what is it doing the rest of the time?
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The Immortal Tulip. Shot in Denmans Garden, Fontwell, West Sussex.
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Usual caveats etc.
A Radical Hypothesis…
As I gazed quietly at a Tulip in Denmans Garden (no apostrophe, apparently) I found myself tempted by a radical hypothesis: that there is actually only one Tulip; one Immortal Tulip.
Certainly, there used to be many millions of them, dotted all around the world, but I suspect that at some point in the last few decades, they came together in a sort of Tulip Conclave, discussed the possibilities of the future for Tulip-kind, decided that it all looked a bit ‘same old, same old’ and, sticking two fingers up to the material world, they promptly coalesced into a single unified energy-based entity… and moved on.
You can do that, allegedly, the coalescing bit, if there are enough of you having the same idea at the same time.
But how, I hear you ask, can we still see acres of Tulips wherever we look, if that is the case?
Simple, says I: as a courtesy to the millions of Tulip lovers around the world, the Immortal Tulip just rapidly changes its position and appearance a few trillion times every second so that it gives the impression that everything is as it was; sort of like a film at the cinema which runs at only 24 frames per second but gives the appearance of real life, complete with smooth, natural motion. This seemingly frantic activity actually costs the Immortal Tulip almost nothing in terms of energy and time, as it now has direct access to the power network of an entire Universe, and, it still gets to bathe in the admiration of the Bees and other onlookers.
However, given that the Immortal Tulip now lives at the speed of light, and given that it only takes a few billionths of every second to perform all of that jumping around, the real question is, what is it doing the rest of the time?
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The Immortal Tulip. Shot in Denmans Garden, Fontwell, West Sussex.
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Usual caveats etc.