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*** Wolfgang Wiegel ***
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*** Institut f"ur theoretische Astrophysik Heidelberg ***
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Douglas Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to
happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again,
happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of
reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a
little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been
happening anyway.
One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties
involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the
speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own
special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build
spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly
well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that
there wasn't really any point in being there.
So, by and large, the peoples of the Galaxy tended to languish in their own
local muddles and the history of the Galaxy itself was, for a long time,
largely cosmological.

Which is not to say that people weren't trying. They tried sending off
fleets of spaceships to do battle or business in distant parts, but these
usually took thousands of years to get anywhere. By the time they
eventually arrived, other forms of travel had been discovered which made
use of hyperspace to circumvent the speed of light, so that whatever
battles it was that the slower-than-light fleets had been sent to fight had
already been taken care of centuries earlier by the time they actually got
there .

This didn't, of course, deter their crews from wanting to fight the battles
anyway. They were trained, they were ready, they'd had a couple of thousand
years' sleep, they'd come a long way to do a tough job and by Zarquon they
were going to do it.