From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 12:08:24 MDT
"Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>
>Amara forwards:
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0205279
> The Ultimate Fate of Life in an Accelerating Universe
> Authors: Katherine Freese (Univ. of Michigan) William H. Kinney (Columbia
> Univ.)
>It was disappointing that this paper did not reference the work of
>Frank Tipler, who showed other kinds of limitations to the development
>of life in an open universe. However the authors do reproduce some of
>Tipler's reasoning:
But referencing Freeman Dyson was not a bad place to start. :-)
Unfortunately I can't say too much about Tipler- I was so strongly
influenced by my friends not to waste time on that book, that I never
did read Tipler.
For those of you who haven't looked at the paper above, it began with
Freeman Dyson's paper ("Time without End: Physics and Biology in an
Open Universe"), and then came to the conclusion that Dyson's arguments
were still valid.
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