From: Bodie (mclarkc@essex.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 06:01:33 MST
I haven't read through the story yet and will probably be able to give you
a more detailed response when I do, but I've heard these sort of theorys
before and they all sound too creation-myth style and no matter how you
try to justify it, I won't believe it til I see it
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Kalkor wrote:
> Ok, here's something from neo-tech that I'd like to discuss with you
> folks... In the story one of the students becomes a nobel-winning physicist,
> and he comes up with this while in the class:
> What are the odds that, given the apparent age and size of the universe, an
> intelligent species evolved early on, as rapidly as we have during the last
> few thousand years? If so, would it not follow that this civilization is
> millions or even billions of years old? Would they not have achieved
> biological immortality by now, and probably technology sufficient to control
> much of the universe, and in fact the fundamental physical laws behind the
> universe? Would not, then, the controlling factors of reality be mass,
> energy, and conciousness, rather than simply mass and energy? Would this be
> sufficient to explain dark matter?
>
> Ah, a direct quote would have been better but I wanted to see how well I was
> able to grasp the subject and regurgitate it in my own words. What do you
> virians think of this idea? Far fetched? Off the point? Relevant? Immutable?
>
> Kalkor
>
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