>From what Tipler has stated, this in not a universe for passivity, because an accelerating cosmos, is not accelerating at warp speed or even 1/10th the speed of light, but somewhere estimated to be under .01 of C, if I recall. The rate of acceleration is also rather small. Intelligent life must over-take this acceleration eventually and mannipulate it into Omega. Curiously enough, there is a parallel of Cousert's question in this week's New Scientist, The Last Computer, by Marcus Chown. Also, let us not forget Hans Moravec and his retro-fitted Neutron Star cosmos.
-Mitch
Hal Finney writes:
<<Only with this special type of collapse is infinite computation possible.
It has to be the whole universe collapsing for this trick to work.
Of course recent astronomical observations suggest that the universe
won't collapse at all, challenging some aspects of Tipler's theory
(in particular the claim that collapse is inevitable).
Hal>>
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