Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34735597-20170227214011/@comment-26256072-20170302021300

Meh3300 wrote: Alice, being omnipotent, is able to do anything and everything regardless of logic.

Alice decides to create Bob, a being infinitely greater than she and completely independent of her, not under her control. Saying Bob can never exist independently of Alice is inherently putting a "cap" on Alice's omnipotence, making her only nigh-omnipotent. My previous two posts disappeared for some reason, not sure what that's about. Sorry if post number three seems rushed.

Analogy: Alice's omnipotence is like the speed of light. It takes an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed of light. For us mortals, that means we can never ascend to her level. Bob is like a tachyon particle: he can never descend to her level. And since "greater than omnipotent" is not the same as "omnipotent", Bob can actually have limits on his power. The other limits, derived from the tachyon, are as follows:

1. Faster tachyons have less energy than slow ones. The more powerful Bob is, the less able he is to oppose Alice.

2. Tachyons have imaginary rest mass. Bob's power is also imaginary, so he cannot interact with the real world.

3. Tachyons do not exist; a tachyonic field occurs when certain systems are unstable, and these systems "condense" to avoid producing tachyon particles. Bob being "greater than omnipotent" is illogical, so our logical concept of Existence will exclude him. Alice would have to change the rules of logic for Bob to exist.

In summary, Bob is nigh omnipotent and nonexistent, and cannot oppose Alice because he has a higher level than her.

And the idea that Bob can be independent of Alice is absurd, since Alice created him.