Imagination and Improbability Drive ...

The Infinite Improbability Drive, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a wonderful new method of crossing vast intersteller distances in a mere nothingth of a second without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.

It is based on a particular perception of quantum theory: a subatomic particle is most likely to be in a particular place, such as near the nucleus of an atom, but there is also a small probability of it being found very far from its point of origin (for example close to a distant star). Thus, a body could travel from place to place without passing through the intervening space (or hyperspace, for that matter), if you had sufficient control of probability. This way the drive “passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe almost simultaneously,” meaning the traveller is “never sure where they’ll end up or even what species they’ll be when they get there” and therefore it’s important to dress accordingly.

In essence it is nothing but a contraption that attempts to create a probability field of infinite improbability. This field can make things happen; things that have the remotest, minutest, infinitesimal chances of happening in normalcy. As said before, the travellers of the infinite improbability drive can have no idea what they will be holding when the drive is turned off.

A point worth deliberating at this juncture is that the human brain, through the travails of evolution, is already capable of employing such a drive.

Imagination.

Think of that micro moment at which you had the stellar idea that lead you to the Nobel prize, or, mm, your girlfriend's undulant adoration would also do. At that very fine, thin moment, your brain clamps to something that previously was not anywhere in the remotest realms of your consciousness.

It can be said that in such moments the brain micro momentarily switches to near infinite improbability drive and comes out with something unknown before, something un-conceived and completely new, something that only had the remotest, minutest, infinitesimal chance of residing in your thought-space.

Think of the micro instant; instant when Newton thought why the apple should fall down, when Einstein thought that light's velocity should be constant, when Michelangelo thought that Monalisa should contra-smile, or, rather, something very recent,

when me postulated that the human brain has an improbability drive, 

:-)

and such, and such ...