From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 11:30:06 MDT
Anders Sandburg noted:
<<http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208156
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992759
According to Linde et al, supergravity may cause the dark energy to
become attractive and trigger a very fast collapse in the near
future (just a few tens of billion years! scramble! fasten the
hatches!). Unfortunately for the orthodox tiplerites, this collapse
looks very fast, so it is likely not slow enough to allow infinite
information transmission.>>
I had posted Linde's paper last week. It made me wonder if Tipler "inspired"
Linde to look at the cosmos in a slightly different fashion, when they
interacted with each other on the TV series, Closer to the Truth?
It also made me consider how long, in billions or trillions of years,
technology will go forward; in an Orions Arm fashion. My conclusion is: The
"game" is still 'a-foot' and the wheel is still in spin. We may never know
how it will all turn out, as physicist, Larry Krauss noted, a year ago.
That may truely be the fun part of it all.
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