From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 23 1998 - 09:58:16 MST
Brent Allsop <allsop@swttools.fc.hp.com> writes:
> Since Science_ has selected the conclusions that the universe
> will continually expand without contraction as the top science story
> of 1998 can anyone direct me to a source of information about how we
> can survive and grow forever in a forever expanding and cooling
> universe?
The classic on this subject is Freeman Dyson's Time Without End:
Physics and Biology in an Open Universe(Reviews of Modern Physics,
Vol. 51, No. 3, July 1979)
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt
It is a bit aged, we really need a more up-to-date version that takes
new knowledge about information theory and reversible computation into
account.
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