User:Zebraic
Zebraic
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To Do
- CONDENSE DEADPOOL. 4th wall, "further adventures", powers/equipment etc.
- EXPAND "The Cat" Shen Kuei--Dig through issues of Cable/Deadpool for this. Needs publishing history?
- Add to Majipoor
- Add to Liberec District
General
Zebraic is the username of one Wikipedian, real name Jay Clatter, who has contributed a few articles, minor, and major edits to Wikipedia. Clatter has held residence in two U.S. States, one of which was Pennsylvania. He is a construction engineer, owning his own construction firm labeled 'Zebraic Construction'.
Tesseracts, Real & Imagined
This was a cryptic attempt at describing, with poetic concision, what a tesseract space might seem like. Something that interests me more than the "normal" tesseract space is this question: What if we can create them by building places in a fictional environment? What if we build a place that takes up more space than is feasible in the real environment? Here is an example of what I'm talking about: Let's say I 'build' a house of cards in a story, for the sake of whimsy (among other things). This house of cards is not a standard house of cards: It is a gigantic palace, a sort of city unto itself. Now. I have placed it where, in the real world, Los Angeles would be. In my fiction, is there no Los Angeles then? No. Los Angeles still exists. There is just a larger area within the geographic coordinates of real world Los Angeles, so that in the story, both my house of cards and Los Angeles can exist. Now, if this happened in "real, physical space", then the two vast cities would overlap each other and crush out places like Hollywood and Orange county (or whatever). But they don't exist in "real, physical space" as far as I'm concerned. Now here's where things get tricky. WHAT IF my writing regarding the house of cards is metafictional? What if it is so convincing that people in the real world (the "real world") simply accept it as real? They begin to believe that it exists along side/in concordance with Los Angeles, and soon there is a consensus: The house of cards is real. It exists in real space. Of course, you've probably already realized that 'consensus' is key to this concept; What I'm talking about is creating, from fiction, a consensus reality. Now, there are problems with this, of a certainty! What, you say, happens if one of these believers (in the consensus) goes and decides to find my house of cards? Well, he won't find it. That's obvious. He will not find it in real, physical space. But, he has already found it: He has found it in my writing, and he has brought it into his own thoughts and allowed it to exist "for real" there because he has chosen to believe in it. But what if he has doubts? He went looking for the place in the first place, so certainly his faith in the existence of the house of cards is waning. If that is the case then he accepts or out right rejects a proposal by me (For I would have created a proposal for this contingency; for people doubting my story who have to go look for themselves. Alternately, I could have nothing to do with the proposal: He proposes it to himself in his mind, or other "believers in the house of cards" propose it to him as a rationalization): What if the house of cards is simply very difficult to get to? What if it moves around? What if, even, he is just not 'worthy' enough to find the house of cards? So now he has his doubts. He can accept that perhaps he just couldn't find the house of cards (for whatever reason), or he can flat out deny that there is a house of cards; that it is merely a fiction. Either way, there is most probably doubt in his mind. For the man who went and looked for the house of cards, and doubted afterwards its existence, the house of cards now exists in his doubt. But, as I stated earlier, in this hypothetical situation the house of cards is already accepted as a reality by consensus. So, then, the relevant question is: How does this doubter effect the consensus reality? What I believe is that, with enough momentum, he could change a large number of minds to the point that the house of cards no longer exists in consensus reality. In this scenario, it is merely word-of-mouth that spreads doubt like a virus, much in the same way that belief was spread like a virus when the house of cards was first accepted as reality. However, I find this scenario highly unlikely; I doubt that he could change enough minds to erase the house of cards from consensus reality. Even if he does, there will always be those who believe in it; Since the idea has been propagated, the genie is out of the bottle. There's no way to get that sucker back in.
See Also:
Subjective idealism
Shunyata
"There was a sudden sound, an urgency transferred across the vibrational elements. And then nothing turned itself inside out, screamed, and imploded." It was as if there was a much larger place inside a place whose outside indicated a place much smaller.
Meaning, Use, & Derivation
The term, zebraic means, perhaps obviously, "possessing the qualities associated with a Zebra."[1]
Interests
I am particularly interested in the use of hydroelectricity as a renewable resource. Recently, I have been studying the use of hydropower plants in the post-communist Czech Republic after I made a business trip there in 2004.
Anything to do with geological surveying, construction engineering (especially on a large scale), and energy holds my interest.
Miscellaneous
Reality framework. Is there an article on Wikiality?
An explosion just rocked Baltimore; I've never felt anything like it. I moved away from the windows immediately. Felt like a train hit my building; certain there are new cracks in my ceiling. I'm on a higher floor than most people. I think the concussion wave must've hit the top floors of buildings harder because there is less things to buffer them from an aftershock than the lower floors. Seriously, my building vibrated. I want this time-stamped, which is why I'm placing it here. Zebraic 02:47, 16 September 2007 (UTC) The only article I could find on it was a single paragraph. This is what abc had to say about it in that article:
BALTIMORE - A Baltimore fire official says a propane tank exploded during an event outside the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, but no one was injured. It happened around 10:30 p.m. during an event celebrating the venues' 25th anniversary. Fire department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright says the tank exploded in a tent set up for the event outside the building. He says the fire was controlled in just a few minutes and no one was hurt.
Tell that to my apartment, Kevin Cartwright. --Zebraic 00:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Current articles I am writing
Please note that any articles listed here have not been launched onto Wikipedia yet; I like to polish them to a fine sheen before I post them, so anything still in the works is located in my User space.
Hevstäf, a small town in Czech Republic I "found" on my trip during 2004. I am making this my current opus article. Addendum: As of 8:04 PM, October 24th 2006, the article has been launched onto Wikipedia proper. There is still much to include on it, however. Addendum Addendum: As of October 14th, 2007, Hevstäf was razed to the ground, so to speak. It was believed to have been what some are calling a hoax, after the article had been on Wikipedia for almost precisely a year. ~Zebraic 08:16, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
The Bohemian Paradise-- I can't believe there's no article on this beautiful place.