virus: The universe

From: Kalkor (kalkor@kalkor.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 18:56:58 MST


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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