From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 22:11:39 MDT
"Colin Hales" <colin@versalog.com.au> Wrote:
> I always felt the assumption of some sort of 'dark matter' and exotic as
yet
> unobserved energy a little 'out there' and grasping, [...] At least they
are
> particles already 'on the books', so to speak.
I think that's going too far, both axions and dark matter are just
theoretical
possibilities, neither has been detected in the lab.
> Would it be possible to construct a stable universe out of all the matter
in
> it? Stabilise the motions of everything and halt a big crunch?
You wouldn't want to do such a thing. The big crunch would be great because
that would mean infinite energy was available and that would mean infinite
computation was available and that would mean infinite subjective time
was available.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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