Counting the Cosmos: Blackjack, the Multiverse, and the Great Dream

Science Fiction Author D. Colin Palmer here. This episode turns card counting in Blackjack 21 into a cosmology lesson: the shoe as a finite universe, the running count as entropy’s whisper, true count as climate, and each wager a translation of silence into intention. We follow a decaying sequence of numbers through parallel realities, where God is both the sum of all atomic matter and the sacred quiet between particles. Edge becomes alignment, not domination; bet alternation becomes ceremony—press and release, inhale and exhale—ending with a reflection on how the Great Dream concludes in Native American spirituality: not in triumph or despair, but in balance. If you’ve ever wanted probabilities to feel like poetry, or the casino to sound like a drum circle at the edge of the multiverse, this is your hand. Hit play, think deeply, and ride the wave when the count says “now.”