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EDITOR
IN
1994
29
First
Word
Continuum
By John Polkinghorne
36
Communications
44
8
Sounds
Fiction:
By Jane Bosveld
Margin of Error
By Nancy Kress
10
54
A.
J.
Mary Visions
S.Ray!
12
By Tracy Cochran
Electronic Universe
By Gregg Keizer
Visions of Cosmopolis
64
14
Books
By Anthony Mansueto
Does UFO
By Anna Copeland
16
need
80
19
Time
is Nothing
but a Clock
By George Zebrowski
By Torn Dworetzky
20
84
Arts
The Other
Side of the Bloch
By Robert Bloch
Keith Harary
22
Wheels
By Steve Nadis
26
Funds
By Linda Marsa
27
Omni Online
By
Holly
Siegelman
24
89
Awards
By Doug Stewart
The
Victor Dricks
Virtual Reality
By
God?
Fiction:
18
Stars
By
for
70
Digs
By Jeffrey Heck
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Interview
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By Anthony Liversidge
101
Antimatter
124
Games
By Scot Morris
FIRST IAJDRD
ALONE
NEVER ENOUGH:
IS
By John Polkinghorne
am a
wide meshes.
In fact,
war with each other, and isn't science winning the battle? Which
side am really on?
do not think have to choose
many
if
am
really
there are
some ques-
tions
sides, in fact,
going
us to point
of
in
a religious
and
to
religion.
Each
is
becomes revealed
concerned
it
erally mistaken.
sci-
are
never plain, unvarnished observations; to be interesting they
must already be interpreted. That
interpretation requires an interweaving of fact (experiment) and
opinion (theory). That the Geiger
scientific facts
counter clicks
esting;
it
only
is
-pretty uninter-
comes
to life
when
we understand
it to be the sign
a radioactive decay.
Religion, conversely, is concerned with the search for motibelief. Faith does not
involve shutting one's eyes and
believing impossible things because some unquestionable authority tells one to do so. It is the
quest for an understanding of
human experience rooted in wor-
cousins under the skin. Their difference lies in the kinds of quesask and the kinds of
experiences they are prepared
to consider. Science asks the
question How?; religion asks the
question Why? Both are important questions if we want to understand all that is going on.
tions they
both are
Science limits
religion,
of
vated
true.
itself
to treating
"thou."
believe that science and religion both are concerned with interpreted fact, with motivated
opinion. They are intellectual
to
and the
history of ho-
liness represented
by the great
ship, hope,
he
will have to reply, "It is just viin the air." But we all
that there is much more
music than that. Science trawls
brations
know
them
to
we can comprehend
not only the world of everyday
experience which we clearly
formed that
have
understand
to
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READERS' WRITES:
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Looking for UFO Answers
was pleased to hear you started
I
government cover-ups
Birds of a Feather
in-
and the
[April 1994],
only
UFOs and
access
to
such studies.
support your
future issues
in
Good
their existence.
luck.
Jorge Torres,
if
Bill Barbour
Greensboro, NC
Jr.
Miami, FL
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Brinning over with
David
mares"
New
Ideas
face
in
making
new
wdrld.
If
Schlosser
Indianapolis, IN
Cash Cow
or Prestige Pig?
was
cellent,
and
voted
NASA middle-management
timely.
As one
to
be milked."
In
sorr
cash but
for prestige.
On
the incentive
we graded
evaluation board,
contrac-
David Brin [First Word, June 1994] attempts to equate UFO phenomena, es-
and other
He
writes,
",
until then,
remain a big fan of
Keep watching the skies,
guys!" Doesn't Brin find it an ironic
contradiction that some of the best
sightings of UFOs have been reported
by Air Force pilots?
.
Philip Paul
Hampton, VA
San Diego,
Got something
to
CADd
to
com-
Hills,
CA
90212.
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CATHEDRAL DREAMS:
A
and mysticism
By Jane Bosveld
was an odd and spectacular
sights into
whose
electronic cello
nied the visual display,
accompa-
and Peter
Broadwell, senior software, engineer at Silicon Graphics of
Mountainview, California, who
designed the concert software.
The Cathedral Dreams, however, was more than academic
exercise in the interaction of
technology and
ways,
many
art. in
it
tion of
to invest his
cal theory
commem-
dean
of St.
John the
Divine,
growth
is
of
of
a vibrant "planetary
culture."
and
of
sound.
trolled
by human performers.
Strange mazes appeared on a
plains,
grammed
mathematical
formulas which were then transintricate
supercomputer into
video images. In addition to
Abraham, other performers for
the event included Ami Radunlated by a
if
human
somehow be
twentieth anniver-
of sight
bell,
thought could
whose
ciation,
connects
the resonance
meta-
member
Using a super-
religious
computer,
Ralph Abraham
in rites
and
rituals."
began
was here
enced
that he
first
experi-
in-
Santa Cruz
in
Vedic ideas with Western mathematics. To visually represent certain principles of vibration,
Abraham had his students build
a macroscope
a device that
amplifies sound
and sends
it
equipment
in
Abraham's experi-
can be
beat of
to the pulsating
human consciousness.00
THE ROSUUELL
DECLARATION
TIME OUT:
call for
By A.
J. S.
government
Rayl
IAJ know
sauc
ally
the administration to
issue an executive order
declassifying any government information regarding
Roswell, UFOs, and extrafor
terrestrial intelligence.
ernment
concealing
vital
information
aboulUFOs?A
grassroots
movement needs
your help
to find out.
izers
copy
a
of the declaration
list of
signatories to
all
members
of Congress and
White House.
The Roswell Declaration is
not an endorsement of a
to the
quest
truth
Britain
If
part
in
this
groundswell
for
government accountability,
just sign the Declaration
on
324 West Wendover Avenue, Suite 205, Greensboro, North Carolina 27408.
will forward all of the
signatures to the organizers so your voice can be
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to
November
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years ago, an
incident occurred in the
weil
southwestern desert
trial origin.
Forty-seven
of
the
in-
of the first
announced
re-
it
Bomb Group
government cover-up."
Field,
who
four-star general
If,
on the other hand, the
Roswell witnesses are telling the
and information on extrater-
truth
does exist,
not something to which a privileged few in the United States
government should have exclurestrial intelligence
it
is
will
testi-
goodwill.
ton,
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and
civilian
witnesses have
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UNIVERSE
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sucks you
Internet
in like
a black hole
By Gregg Keizer
started so innocently.
all
The
Internet, the
I puter
I
enough information
my
to balloon
to the
would
brain
it
and
well
pull
up a bucketful? Or
maybe two?
It
Log on to the
Internet
Hubble
Space Telescope
discoveries, or
grab
some more
down-to-earth
satellite
images.
It was as if
had pulled
my thumb from the dike. The
rushing spill of space-science information nearly drowned me.
Like the W3 site at http://-
time out.
It
for
my modem
to
needed an arsenal of
software to get between me and
but
UNIX com-
for
pher
client;
group reader;
E-mail program.
even got an
was armed for
digital bear.
And
fuel in
May.
I
failure to
But
couldn't leave. There
was too much hadn't seen, too
many people hadn't talked to or
listened to. was trapped, having
skimmed only a paper-thin layer
W3
of
all
kinds.
At the JPL
server, for instance,
found some incredible
radar images of Earth taken by
I
first
It
tine,
access number
pher.
accidentally blew
dial,
before.
ing
weeks
libraries
like clips
it
better.
five
free,
Endeavor only,
www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html, the
Kennedy Space Center's W3
server home page. This spot was
chock-full of space stuff, and
was in trouble.
Next month; It gets even
I
when
In-
NUMBERS:
Calculating the mind of
God
By Anna Copeland
an old debate. On one side
It's
stands
of the universe.
stands
terial
to
On
the other
human
world,
The arguments
enough in literary or
analytical tools.
are familiar
look at
same
recent
boohs
suggests that
there
Is
lot ot tire
iothe
old debate.
around
tion
that
factual
that
nective design.
ries.
of Platonic Ideality,
he crusades
for
vi-
sion of mathematical
some
tion
harmony
it.
and
number
line.
function.
In fact,
the
it-
the ever-popular n,
frames the question
nicely: "Think of
Of
the infinity of real
numbers, those that
are most important
to mathematics
are located within
.
is
completeness In
tory of a
ing in
"that
man
of
that
human
in-
who
to
reader decide."
To help the reader,
recomtaking a look at a couple of
recent titles: John Barrow's Pi in
the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and
Being (Oxford University Press,
1992) and John McLeish's Number: The History of Numbers and
Lives
ator's
mend
that
mathematical
for its
continuance."
look at
them
in
the right
way.DQ
NEW WORLD?
By Jeffrey Heck
Newark, Ohio,
in
1860,
made
gious inscriptions
Who made
in
reli-
Hebrew.
and
historians.
civilizations.
Wyrick's time
was
that the
mound-
remain divided
on the
origins of the
Mysterious
arti-
facts or a
clavBr hoax?
Scholars
Keystone
(above) and the
Decalogue
Stone (right)
found over
Native
American earth-
builders
shaped piece
of sandstone, the
Keystone is inscribed on all four
sides with Hebrew that reads,
'The Laws of Jehovah, The Word
of the Lord, King of the Earth,
The Holy of Holies." Wyrick, naturally, considered this proof of the
Ten Lost Tribes theory.
lines
stone
A Hebrew
too
covered
in
and above
etched in a
Hebrew found nowhere
else before or since, is the name
of Moses. A condensed version
ure,
November 1860
it,
style of
of the
Ten
Commandments
is in-
Columbian native
economics
versity
at
who became so
by the stones
intrigued
Hebrew alphabet
better.
all
Commandments
I
fer in the
more
box
in
more
im-
which the
Who,
he's going
would go to
to fake,
all
if
something,
of this trouble?"
test,
were produced
ent
in
we
brew
settlement."
Do more artifacts
them lie hidden within the
Newark earthworks? Possibly
mounds have yet to be sysocton, Ohio.
like
the
Victor Dricks
J^\top
a 10,436-foot peak
#^^kon
Mount Graham
tion of
The Vatican's
new
Advanced
Technology Telescope on
Mount Graham
in
Arizona will
allow the Church's
astronomers
even fur-
to peer
mysteries of the
universe.
edge
torical
and ecological
signifi-
cance
tronomer
To do
six
on land occupied by an
endangered species, and our
is
built
mission
is
a demonstration of the
for 36 years.
this, generous donors
have furnished the Vatican's as-
University of Arizona,
to the
tele-
and
new
that
lution,
of
topics that
is
erate size
exact surface of any mirror ever
cast for ground-based astronomy, Capable of providing extremely sharp, detailed images
opments
in
southeastern Arizona,
red squirrels, officially an endangered species, scamper across
a clearing the San Carlos
al-
good
is
they reside
where young
abound. The
Vatican Observatory director, the
Reverend George Coyne, uses
the telescope to peek into starstars
forming regions
in
the constella-
work formal religious training coupled with advanced degrees in' astronomy, and by all
accounts, they've earned considerable respect from their
their
peers.
In fact,
leanings,
who viewed
of interpreting
human
VIRTUAL REALITIES
NAKED
NET:
Confessions of a cyberjunkie: four hours a day,
full
baud
By Tom Dworetzky
clever scuzz waxed the games
and got free. They started transferring from the crime server to
the net itself; stealing credits,
running scams, pretending to be
people they weren't. Anarchists.
The only way to keep up with
them was to play their games."
"Waldo."
said finally, "You're
my friend, but junkies lie. If shift
credits, you'll just burn 'em up on
the wires."
He hesitated, deflated; looked
away, then back. "Screwed up,
did. My own damned fault."
Waldo's E-mail
Captain
was ever stranger. So
I
the
back on
net.
out,"
said.
"A
little
problem," he clicked
Jump
to the Eighteenth
and
you
I'll
get
there."
snitches
local, unlisted,
board where
dealers
in
info junk
and
Crocodile,
I
was
"I
why
it
person," he
in
in.
friend-source
news source
work
for.
Some-
Waldo asked me
meet him
to
at
the Inn of Five Happinesses Chinese restaurant. Today, most inis on the net. An actual
face-to-face is only for big
and big trouble.
teracting
deals
dark, but
got to. the corner
realized Waldo looked
booth,
so bad would've barely recognized him anyway.
"You've been using old images on the wire," said.
"Had to, Look at me. I'm
hooked," he blurted out. "The
net's getting me. Sometimes a
week passes and don't know
when
finally
is,
it
differ-
illegal.
typed
what time
ing.
only live
make
speed
baud rate anyway.
one of those
thoughts
at light
mum
nettime where
the world change
well, the maxiin
"I'm iike
until
it
lab rats
for
more
he laughed
bad. I'm just a
gonna break away
dies,"
Tomorrow
I'll
be
clean.
I've got to quit. Can't pay for ontime anymore. Got no money for
rentorfoQd."
scenarios.
was
in
them
all
the
fixing
ii
on
auto?"
ticular.
"Don't,
until his
quette,
He
tried every-
thing to
quittimers,
alarms,
automatic disconnects
fiul
he was hooked.
Ha was
nettime junkie.
ARTS
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GUMBY:
be a blockhead,
Don't
lift
Gumby
beat
By Keith Harary
n a precarious catwalk
deep
inside
starship,
clone
an iconic-
in
pals:
ally
more
animated fare as Beavis and
years,
Gumby and
something more
is
adventures of
lines of Wile E.
Coyote's
campaign
to
futile
capture
demned
to
repeat the
of
more
to
nite
creative
stuff.
Gumby
creative potential
dren,
in all chil-
child
in
deeper
insights into
how we
experience.:
beyond the
perceptions of
reality
regular,
is
and there
flexible after
more than 40
Gumby
real-life professor
who wore his Phi Beta Kappa
key wherever he went. A fluffy
white mastodon named Denali,
meanwhile, takes his name from
the Eskimo word for "Great One,"
postmodern world.
Gumby
Still
named
Gumby and
his
is
composed
and magic
is
to
be expected.
Long before the T-1000 of Terminator 2 showed off his milliondollar special effects, Gumby
turned shape-shifting 'into an art
aesthetic sensibility.
..The origins of
Clokey marveled
are a
at
Buddhists,
gular
later inspired
shape
of
the an-
Gumby's head.
that
trimentional-animation
process Art Clokey was the first
to apply to mass media enter-
of $2.8 million,
is
scheduled for
October
Gumby and
now work at computand create their own music
video Take Me Away comby Arrow Releasing.
his friends
ers,
Gumby 2
is
by Gloria Clokey.
in the works,
also
Gumby
ing
Gumby
enter-
involved
Gumby
Goes
in
politics.
And
children's book,
the
first
Gumby
perhaps an occasional
high
is
Gumby
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UUHEELS
GRIDLOCK TERMINATOR:
Neural nets predict the
traffic
future
By Steve Nadis
The
Atlanta Falcons'
game at the Georgia
at
Research
showing
Most
city traffic
lights
keep
is
the
system
to
oblivious to
-
systems
TERMINUS
neural networks
includes
networks
predict gridlock
and help
head it off.
two
first traffic
a rigid schedule.
congestion; smart
its stuff.
TERMINUS
control
to
learn.
to
comes
added
together. If the sum exceeds a threshold value, the neuron is activated and sends a pulse
its neighbors. "When certain
combinations of neurons light up,
means [here's congestion,"
Gilrnore says. "The weights are ad-
to
that
justed after
each new
tesl case,
as the network learns which inputs are the most important conclogged roadways."
The ultimate test case for
TERMINUS would be the 1996
Atlanta Olympic Games, which
tributors to
the
to
tem
surface streets
five
counties
firm over-
En
will
and
have
limited
pabilities to
TERMINUS
is
among
the
TERMINUS
on real
life
city
cars" have to be
ently,
because
modeled
traffic
differ-
their electronic
navigation systems
them
will
give
information others
"Your
dumb
them."
Ultimately, he adds, "you'd
like to know everyone's destination." All that information could
be plugged into a giant, central
computer like the one TRW is assembling. Drivers would be advised of the best possible routes,
and traffic lights for the entire region would be adjusted to keep
things flowing smoothly. At that
point, Big Brother will not only be
watching where we go, he'll be
helping us to get there. DO
tell
AIAJARD5
THE IG NOBEL PRIZE:
Some researchers campaign
no? to be nominated
By Doug Stewart
Scientists! Has
Prize
the Nobel
committee
unfairly
of
granted
Prize,
to
those few
whose achievements,
words
in
the
Named
Two past winners
of the rg
Nobel Prize
for
Peace:
H-bomb developer
Edward
Teller (at right)
and former
LA police chief
Daryl Gales.
an acceptance speech."
The ceremony takes place
each October before a raucous
crowd of more than 1,000, including a smattering of would-be
of
dignitaries,
after Alfred
and an umpire.
Ig Nobel Prizes
intended to
says Abrahams, who edits Anist,
The
Nobel
co-sponsored
Ignatius, the Ig
aren't
Prize
ridicule,
is
Nobel comprizes
this year on October 6
at MIT
across the full
spectrum of scientific endeavor.
The physics prize last year went
Ig
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mittee bestows
be the product
of
voilacold
in
copped a mathe-
calculations of comparable
odds: Mother Theresa at infinity
to one; Nelson Mandela, 40,000
software tycoon Bill Gates,
The most recent Ig Nobel
Prize in literature went to the 976
co-authors of a paper in the New
England Journal of Medicine. Actually, 976 was a guess; "Nobody
had the patience to count them
all," says Marc Abrahams, the
to 1;
8 to
5.
event's
when
not orches-
ceremonies
make
Research.
The
trating the
nals
honor
was worth a
bridge. Schiffman
of AirtoVision, a
is
trip to
Cam-
the inventor
hookup
that lets
isn't like
cold fusion
can demonstrate
Even with a
pornographic videotape, you
can drive in traffic, no problem."
it.
come
Cambridge
to
to deliver accept-
corporate
cold-fusion
fame
world.
:
'
said to be
to
Know
is
of Ig
name,
and a
affiliation,
brief ex-
documentation to the
Ig Nobel Prize Committee, c/o MIT Museum, j^m
256 Massachusetts $EUL
Ave., Cambridge,
with
MA
02139. Fax
617-253-8994.
E-mail address:
IG@MIT.EDU.
Don't worry;
Your
name
be
held
will
in
strictest confi-
of
is
dence.
Management
invention
even offering
willing to attend,
"Acute
its
Zipper-Entrapped
pick up the
jet to
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HIGH-TECH DETECTING:
The case
of
magnetic
fingerprint's
By Linda Marsa
was a scene right out of a
ItJames Bond thriller. After
Ronald Indeck lectured a
ticles
group
transform the
formation
is
way
may
electronic in-
safeguarded and
authenticated.
and
old Beatles
to
University
to
billionth of
the
a yard
this noise
computer disks or
whatever storage medium you
choose to use by depositing
billions of tiny, magnetized grains
on the medium's surface. These
credit cards,
nification
power
of ordinary mi-
your card
is swept through an
electronic scanner, if the wave
form that comes up correlates to
the original, the transaction is
cleared. Says Indeck, "Every
patch of magnetic medium can
be authenticated."
transit tickets
random pattern
stripe.
that creates a
as unique as the
signature that
is
and whorls
human
of a
This signature
or fingeris permanently embedded
print
in
it
like
so tiny,
a piece
is
in
fingerprint.
can be eimagnetic
skin ridges
exactly
security device.
way
squeezed
in
in
Canada,
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board their host's spaceship to
talk about science fiction and
fantasy. The conversation
screeched to a halt as everyone's attention focused on a tentacle dangling outside the ship's
paranormal chats dubbed Antimatter chats and science-fiction/fantasy chats make up the
bulk of the schedule, taking
place four times a week and five
times a week, respectively.)
Each chat session has a host
to keep the chat from veering too
far off the topic and to ensure
that guests do not violate America Online's Terms of Service,
which define the standards of
online behavior. Before they're
ready to lead a chat, the hosts
Watson,
who goes by
screen
the
name OMNI Angel, volunteers her
time and effort to Omni Online.
Watson subjects the host candidates to a rigorous, 20-hour
strate their
The most
difficult
part of host-
maintaining an intriguing
conversation without being either
too quiet or too overbearing, according to Watson. She teaches
the hosts to encourage the discussion without becoming the
focus of the chat. Still, "the hosts
have a wide spectrum of personalities and knowledge," she says,
"and this gives each of the chats
a distinctive feel to it that the
members enjoy"
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is
In addition,
their
unusual experiences,
UFOs,
who
hosts
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how he
many
"regulars" returning
says
in
Each
of
Omni
Online's
15 active
hosts has a
dis-
tinct style,
which influences
whether
chatters end up
discussing
The Hitchhiker'?
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fiafewortherote
of
women
science
in
fiction.
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FINDER OF THE LOST ARK?
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and how
to
prevent back
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journalist
Graham Hancock,
the case for
who makes
Ethiopian holy
and
and
Ethiopia,
it
rests today.
it.
field
was completely
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to
Hancock,
this
legend
is
not
liter-
of
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made
because
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he believes,
conducive
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also have
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"Because of the nature of the object, they tend to stand
back from
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open."
men provide
will
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be ruined."
examine the object they guard so closely, his speeutotions will be very difficult to prove. Hancock admits ~r<c
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Colleen Murphy's invention
box contains
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an alarm
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into
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digital
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mammography
about a quarter
to reach
enabling
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The
light-detector
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Lawrence
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and
Murphy
breast cancer.
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or pent-
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images
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com-
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diagnosis of potentially
tu-
mors
mammography techniques.
ital
better
means
tion of the
allowing
end
dubbed
met
originally
developed the
for
weapons
CCDs have
also found their way into
equipment used for surveillance and space exploration, as well as some advanced camcorders.
Digital
mammography
is
seeking a financial
backer to help her launch
and manufacture the
still
device.
Murphy hopes
to
be
er-assisted diagnosis to
help scientists locate suspicious areas in breast tissue. Another benefit of the
technology is the ability
doctors will have to transmit
images
to
remote loca-
superhighway
vide
to pro-
mammography services
clinical
prototype
requires
Administration approval,
should be ready by
year's
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lines. The chute fully inflates
in about five seconds.
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on systems for larger,
four-seat aircraft weighing
up to 3,000 pounds, and
GARD, which has won FAA
certification, could one
larger
aircraft, according to
Johnson, who notes that
NASA has long used
parachutes to lower 150,000-
PARACHUTES FOR
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square foot of nylon can
lower one pound of plane. Already used in ultralight
and kit-built planes, which
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lives in potentially fatal
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is
among
science
an interdenominational array
including
trenched
situated appropriately
opposed
are neither
nor ignorant
leafy
is
in modern America. In
1992 Russell was invited by
then-Senator A! Gore to be
one of a group of scientists
and theologians to advise him
on a Joint Statement about
of seminaries,
the Environment.
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to
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Russell's
own
personal history.
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dent
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if
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Galileo notwithstanding,
wrote that nothing could "rejoice" him more than that his
science should be used for the purpose of demonstrating
the existence of a deity.
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CTNS
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and maser. Another board member is the
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in
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in
whom they hold joint biannual conferences under the rubric of "Divine
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brings together scientists, theologians,
and philosophers to talk about a partic-
been
the
tures by
all denominations
in the form of workshops and seminars
about science and its interaction with
Christian faith. CTNS, which also publishes both a quarterly scholarly journal, The CTNS Bulletin, and a monthly
newsletter, has. over 500 members from
Christian ministers of
all
sell
needs to be articulated
within the_
which
cosmology.
is
We
need
specifically just
to
be able
to
see
for
to
of the
seems
like
quantum
has
was
hardly
Hawking's intention despite his muchquoted closing line about knowing "the
mind of God." the famed British physicist's stance is deeply antireligious. Yet
Russell believes Hawking's cosmology
resolves a long-standing theological
dilemma: How could a temporal universe have been created by a timeless
deity? By offering a model of the universe which has no definitive beginning and where time gradually emerges
as a distinct phenomenon, Russell
it
in
itself
becomes
gested
in
the
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fifth
century.
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Ellis
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WORLD PREMIERE
life
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are
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we're trying to
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the
all
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working, on fairly
be.
remote variables
if
you're reduced to
asking me."
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have
do
to
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we were just kids
put the clean diaper on Lori. "Not
all kids behave like that. Lollie doesn't.
But you wouldn't know that, would you?
Nobody in your set has children. You
should have had a baby, Paula." She
barely hid her shudder. But, then, most
of the people we knew felt the same
way. She said, "What the project needs
is for you to come back and work on the
of error,
.
same
erations of nanoassemblers."
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said.
It
looks
I'll
be
a new form
like
frank,
can-
of
cer.
and
project's irreversible!"
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are irreversible,"
said.
chinery
it
sagging.
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you
"Eight years
listen."
said quietly.
female gametes
which
about because
it
nobody cared
was already
clear
carefully in
and set
said, "I didn't mind working
on female gametes, even if it was a
it
backwater, even
was used
to
if
after
it,
all.
As
billing.
kids,
you
was
ber?
the chemicals
and then
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Remem-
in
your
first
all
chemistry set
stole mine."
don't think
trivial
childhood
inci-
."
dents matter in
never
"Of course you don't. And
minded. But did mind when five years
ago you made copies of all my notes
and presented them as yours, while
was so sick during my pregnancy with
Lollie. You claimed my work. Stole it.
Just like the chemistry set. And then
.
it
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stared back coolly. Paula
wasn't used to me cool. I'd always
been the excitable one. Excitable,
flighty, unstable
that's what she told
I
Zweigler.
security
Timmy fussed
up,
nursing
still
my
up with
free
in
risk.
how
stood
.'"
who gave
Young
their
to that work.
life
you
did,
it.
it
was a barracuda
partnering a goldfish."
my
'Lovely
to
his portacrib.
Lori,
"It's
okay, honey.
Mommy's
not
changed, Karen."
was
like
"I
never the
She
tac-
same
after that."
My
true.
"It's
machinery
cellular
is
to
."
.
does."
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asleep.
see
Lollies lips
if
were blue!
choked
Paula
scien-
was. Paula
like that.
yard. David
really
make admissions
grammed
tific
ately for
A way
mad
frog-
hopping away."
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tical error.
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out,
to
muck up
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cares
about
cent of college-educated
survey
ma'gin
pro-
."
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women want
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result.
of error."
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in-
."
jected by now, maybe thousands
"Oh, there's a reverser enzyme,"
.
if
it
ctothis
."
.
human
laid
Timmy
next to Lori
in
the portacrib,
wading pool.DQ
"So
much
for the
n March
New York's
21, 1994,
ended with
pious tableau:
this
News
up
reverently at a glistening
Cairo,
is
in
a church
weeping
oil
gift shop
The cambearded figure
tears.
the sign of the cross and, enraptured, stand before the icon
divine
that
is
people across
driving
like
Bensonhurst.
dripping
of vegetable oil
but the faithcontinued to come. Most, even
In
icon
mixed with
oil
olive
from the
oil for
the
Mina Yanni,
priest at the church and a compact
bundle ol energy with a gray beard
and merry eyes. Indeed, visitors
dipped balls of cotton into a jar of
this "blessed" mixture, a thick,
greenish liquid carefully placed
below the icon. Olive oil was added
to the icon's
own
secretions, Father
is
just
in a volcanic
miraculous events and
a backyard
who
TV
of
continued
We
In
doll-
surge
Byzantine-style halo.
Back
But
New
up the
as if it were alive.
would reverently make
The
Mew
in
Marlboro Township,
Jersey, an apparition of
Mary
galvanize thousands
to
persisted
in visiting
the property
was unproven
at best. In the
had
to
end,
persuade
And an even
rarer
phenomenon was
reported at
Catholic Church
assistant priest,
and
of
James
Fr.
developed stigmata
wounds
Bruse,
the bleeding
Christ on
all
of them staring
Jesus and
TV anchor announces
the angels
have gotten
What on
on?
earth, or off
most
longing seen
Fostoria, Ohio;
in
on a formica tabletop
new
surprising. According to
In
it,
is
going
passion and
the visionaries
the site of a Mary-
themselves.
and
vision,
in
Visit
mother, and
This
people yearncompassionate
you'll find
we have
Paul
chairman
Kurtz,
today."
of the
Com-
the divine.
states
is
tigation of
camp
for
an
it,"
Kurtz says.
afterlife,
when
it
comes
political leaders'
to these apparitions
by Tracy Cochran
Apparitions of the
Mother touch
Illustration
by Marvin Mattelson
own beliefs."
These Marian visions have long
their
challenged our
somed
fairs.
was
Mary reportedly
To
brave rocket
fire
Marlboro Township,
of
land of split-levels,
and barbecue
Mary
New
Jersey,
swimming
pools,
grills.
appeared
first
to
Joseph
Italian
stood
man had
in line to
statue inside a
strollers,
shirts
tired ladies in
suits
hair.
turned a
in
moon
split in two."
woman
we saw a big
colored ring spinning around the sun."
!
clockwork.
It
as a sign.
all the public appari-
Of
and knelt
THE VIRGIN
was
SUBURBANITES IN THE
II
shot.
LAND OF
the
SPLIT-LEVELS,
GRILLS.
"Look
1992, the apparition that
sometimes calls herself "the yellow
rose of peace" instructed the devout
gray-haired immigrant who worked as
a draftsman to tell others what he was
seeing. She promised, he reported, to
appear to him after dark on the first
Sunday of every month. Januszkiewicz
told and people came in droves.
Though Januszkiewicz refused to
talk to the press, his suburban altar
was open to all. On the balmy June
Finally
evening
in
thousand
and aluminum
chairs.
It was still
light when my husband
and got to Januszkiewicz's yard. The
scene had all the palpable excitement
and anticipation of an outdoor concert
I
kets
move?" Far
rows on blan-
They stood
in
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buttoned-down
community in December 1991, that Father Bruse began bleeding from the
wrists and feet. For months, few outside the inner circle of priests and
Boise's family
ing.
Bruse's superior, Father Daniel Hamilton to quietly have Bruse checked out
by both a
psychiatrist
and an
internist;
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to be normal. In March 1992,
however, the gold-painted, fiberglass
after careful examination,
Bruse
ton,
to
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feel
God's presence," said one welldressed woman from New Jersey who
had been to Marlboro as well.
Standing nearby, church member
Hall, a spritely, middle-aged
Nancy
if
to
The Church itself has withheld judgment and, true to form, has delivered a
noncommittal response. Indeed, the
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reacted to the Lake Ridge phenomenon with this cautious statement: "In
this particular case, there is no determined message attached to the reported physical phenomena, and thus
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"Approximately one hundred percent of
is
ex-
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"If someone alleges a miracle, the
burden of proof is on them," says Nickell. "But they won't let outside investigators examine the statues and the
stigmata. Why?"
some
phenomena may be
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may
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and
it
can be
frightening."
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to Nickell
phe-
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parishioners at
to
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their work,
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the object
UFO
human
of
its
be
advance
far in
of
our own,
it
to create.
possibility that
it
the
It
phenomenon regarding
human civilization.
the current
state of
The UFO
stories of attempts
to "reverse
literature
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is,
where we are going. This kind of culobservation does not rule out the
tural
to distinguish
existence.
This said,
how
UFO phenomenon
types
is full
of
by the government
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UFO
propulsion
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is
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genuity.
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as their "otherness" has intensified
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not alone. We have a drive toward
ability to walk through walls, to levitate,
wholeness and completion which is apand so on have remained finite, huparent in everything we do. For inmanoid beings who have real limitastance, we join together in intimate
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transcendent
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emerged around the UFO treats huof a
period brought wfth them grave dangers to be sure. But they also made it
possible, for the first time, for humanity
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end
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to
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and
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life
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pany worker, drawing him and a newfound companion into the Wyoming
wilderness for an encounter with
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over the best and the brightest to accompany the aliens on a journey into
the heavens. The score by John
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sur-
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way
predecessors.
writes
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whole.
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wholeness in a continuation of the scientific project of our own civilization,
the New Age movement rejects the
.
whole enterprise
of rational
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UFO
investigator
Raymond
Fowler, told
to
their captors.
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to
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with alien invasion. We are desperately
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into
my
looking
first identify,
the
beneath my wristwatch.
On Lacey's other side, Chuck Furtado
abruptly screamed. It keened high and thin,
woke
itself
at
lining of
Cretaceous!"
MAKE
PEACE WITH
scream ripping
to
skull.
THEIR
on Mary,
began
insides
TO A
CRETACEOUS
speed.
skuil cavity.
PAINTING BY
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swallowed
its
all.
it
realized
hadn't
sections.
my
conditioner
her.
"I
effect.
sundown. There
to be seen of the sky,
concussive sounds that
distant detonations.
like
think
my
hill."
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AND
SITE.
MY
EYES BURNED
like
"I'm
Captain
ter.
a toupee.
supposed
Kirk,"
be Bones, not
to
is
said. "Just
some
sewing."
let
put one
stretched her arm to reach his right
shoulder.
could see she wasn't looking at his ruined head. But her lips
I
moved
finally
We
were
and mainly
lay
"Yeah,"
said. "Where the hell's
Mary?" Then realized that it wasn't just
crumpled
figure this
in
ragged
too.
showed
started
my fingers
looked,
saw
slip
down
ON THE TITANIC.
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MY SINUS
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Mary
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mind. "Okay,
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decided to leave
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and
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CUE,
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Lacey
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that,
like
work,"
thought might
."
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"Hey,
me
alive
was Rick's
a message wafting
something
got to
had been.
of prayer.
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voice, like
we
of the
de-
didn't look to
said.
at the partial
after
and out
her teeth
presumably
much
rolling
Rick.
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in
same
just close to
heard
sounded
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part
whistled
wound where
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wasn't
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it
up
to close off
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seemed
sinus cavities
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"Thanks,"
said, and got off
helped her up.
"Rick's hurt bad," Lacey
was so edged,
with
alive. Air
whether
glanced
air,
messed up
like
the
capitation.
we'd main
my
face.
familiar smell of
mond
like
hit me again.
said, "Just stunned.
"I'm okay,"
Don't slug me again."
me
to
and then
She
The
looked
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down
Mary's headrest.
again,
as
said.
"Who?" said.
"From base," said Mary. "Did they
right
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we crashed?"
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"Then they're not
her eyes. "They can't find us, or
maybe
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the slope.
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to smile
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enough."
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coordinates.
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drift,
but
rattled off
once
some
threaded knot
the shoulders
damned
echoed
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said. "Wyoming, The
southwestern desert. Rock Springs?"
"Thereabouts. We're about in the
middle of the Green well, what'll be
flap.
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in
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help."
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had never before seen a dinosaur in
the flesh
and then tried to confront
drew the
a few moments.
it
foot,
then nothing.
it
our campsite.
in row something else
a disemboweled gauge,
think. The
reptile hissed around Furtado's foot,
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prey.
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go
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that really
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Lacey and
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in
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end
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versity,
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for Nature,
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of
cosmology, astrophysicist
John Wheeler
of Princeton.
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published
in
1986,
was a
PHYSICIST
PROPOSES A THEORY
OF ETERNAL
THAT YIELDS GOD.
LIFE
PROFESSION:
Physicist
and cosmologisi
PLACE OF
BUSINESS:
Tulane University,
New
LA
Orleans,
BOOKS WRITTEN:
The Physics of Immortality
(Doubleday, 1994)
TheAnthropic Cosmohglcal
Principle (Oxford, 1986)
THEORY
ONE
IN
who created
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and
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one day
us
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forever."
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THEORY:
TAKING THE SPACE-TIME VIEW, YOU SEE THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, FROM THE
END OF TIME, FROM THE ULTIMATE FUTURE GOD COMING INTO EXISTENCE.
Principles of physics
SEX IN HEAVEN:
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and the beings' of the
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computer
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message
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Tipler:
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God
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metaphysics
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physics.
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point has significance in my theory, because
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life vojld cease to exisi.
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however, on the large scale these
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dict
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or not we're going to blow ourselves to
bits was locked into concrete 20 billion
years ago. There's no contingency in a
deterministic space-time; everything
was fixed at the beginning of time.
In the quantized Omega Point theory, this determinism is only approximate. We have free will, and can blow
ourselves to bits. But If we do, there
must be at least one other intelligent
species in the' universe that does not
blow itself up. Our destruction is unlikely now. Instead, we'll begin interstellar colonization next century,. after
which the destruction of the earth won't
matter to the postulate.
The Omega Point theory is that life
goes on forever, and as a consequence, the universe is closed, with its
final state a single point. That it is a
point is imp'ied by life going on forever,
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cial
But
York
SPENT THE
AND
and doing
necessarily a
New
family.
I'VE
plain
Once word
Funny thing
tant. Practically
over in Switzerland.
But never mind. Vaudeville
is dead, and
soon will be,
was
sentiments.
things no longer
their
I'm frightened.
that there'd
final illness
Virginny
in
Camped
if
compose themselves
to
remain behind,
iiim
Who knows?
graffiti,
way,
anything, only so
where
on
and
that
fit-
some-
my name
it.
P.
T.
Barnum. During
his
or
it's
I,
GAfWES
FISH BOWL:
By Scot Morris
Last month
presented
Equally mysterious
is
Washbasin Fountain,"
fish,
raised
can become
I've
the
(below, right)
air
in
four fish
shown on the
Science and
in
produced by the
lines of
spouting water
the design,
in
was
at different angles.
We now know
he
effects,"
minum wok
best,
tive
where
that
nate at
bell to reso-
as
you can gel a champagne
glass to sing by rubbing a wet
finger
As
its
around the
rim.
ripples form
on the water's
sur-
fish
somehow an image
lid
though
worked
it's
nothing
like
as spectacular as the
bronze bowls."
Dalgety has acquired
the bowls mainly for interac-
side-down
reproduce the
Dalgety says, "I
"In trying to
Civilization in
Crw7a(1962}, speculated
that the spouting effect was
reality.
science centers in
England, though he sold two
Reuben H, Fleet
Space Center in San Diego,
to the
visitors line
up
to
"resonant bowls"
from China. Dalgety will
the Chinese bowls by mail
order, but they are not
cheap. The one shown, about
16 inches in diameter,
try out the
sell
money
ternational
He has
larger
in-
order.
and smaller
and he
sizes available,
it
mirror. Is
it
bronzemakers have
modern science with
another deliberate trick,
like the fish designed onto
the bottom of the bronze
bowl? Did they add a design
cient
fooled
theorize incorrectly