From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 13:22:41 MDT
At 12:45 AM 8/15/02 EDT, Mitch url'd:
>http://www.nature.com/nsu/020812/020812-2.html
Good pointer!
>Even if 'something' had set the peculiar initial conditions
>of our Universe, this would only apply for its first run.
>Subsequent recurrences would produce a quite different Universe.
>In that case, we'd have to conclude that we are in the first unfolding
>of this carefully crafted Universe. This all seems too much like
>special pleading, the researchers say.
Maybe what they're missing is an interesting intersection of two ideas that
struck me the other day with the news from Lineweaver and Davies that *c*
was perhaps infinitely fast at Big Bang t0 (and swiftly slowed), and my
notion of the Very Fast Evolution Machine (in THE SPIKE). Amid the noise
and propinquity of the first fractions of a second, there might have been
time for whole constellations of life to evolve and bootstrap themselves to
`godlike' intelligence and power over their environment, *a fortiori* if
particle exchanges were happening very much faster than *c* in such a
compacted spacetime. Yes, *now* there is a god. This says nothing about
recycling bubbles via statistical Poincare recurrence, but who knows what
such advanced Ur-Minds might have been capable of impressing upon the shape
of the emerging, cooling manifold?
Damien Broderick
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