Brain states? Wow! "Elementary Particles"?

So, the picture...The faithful dog, one presumes is there for his masters sake because his wife is dead?

Topically...Does the Christmas present really have a future? Is the future cycling backwards? Parallel universes now there's a great topic for conversation...

So is the painting actually depicting a dead woman, the man's second wife and was Dyck really there or was it all just happening at different points in time and then whhooosh! There it is in the painting...

He who laughs last, laughs and laffs and larfs and loafs and and and....