From: Dan Adams (danadams@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 17:01:40 MDT
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Does the cosmos expand and the
> halt or contract, and then re-flate?
Question answered - it expands forever.
>Andrew Weil
> suggested in his book, The Age of Spiritual
> Machines,
Ray Kurzweil?
> that whatever the Constants of the
> Universe are; it won't matter, because whenever
> these constants come up against Intelligence, these
> constants effectively crumble.
Allthough I might agree with that statement on some
level, I don't think he said it in that particular
book.
Will puny man do
> this? Naw! Will human descendents achieve this? I
> would vote yes.
I agree.
> In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000 2:56:14 PM
> Eastern Daylight Time, Dan Adams
> <danadams@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> << It was a joke Mitch - I'm fully aware of the
> frontiers
> of high energy physics. Interestingly, it has
> recently been demonstrated that we live in an open
> universe consisting of roughly 5% matter, 35% dark
> matter, and 60% dark energy.
>
> --- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 5/14/00 10:04:33 PM Pacific
> > Daylight Time,
> > danadams@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > << I say we just call them "magical
> non-localities."
> > >>
> > Well, that's a good idea, except, there are real
> > physicists who postulate
> > alternate universes and wormholes and such. Are
> > those magical, non-localities
> > too? Till a couple of years ago, dark energy was a
> > dark horse, non-entity
> > also; possible, but eh! what study it? Then, up
> > jumps evidence of a
> > anti-gravitic force or effect and, golly, the dark
> > horse now leads the race.
> > Ya never know.
> > Mitch
>
>
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