From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Mar 05 1999 - 07:00:52 MST
At 01:23 PM 3/4/99 PST, Gina wrote:
>>Here's a question. Who is interested in immortality for all a la
>Frank Tipler?
>What is needed is nanotechnology.
No. What is needed is not the capacity to manipulate atoms deftly, but the
ability to shove meta-galaxies around and to tweak the shape of a universal
contracting spacetime in the final zillionsths of a second of its plunge
toward a Big Crunch. (Note `a la Tipler', above.)
Nano will be nice to have, but it's about as relevant to the Omerga Point
as a stone axe.
Damien Broderick
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