> 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?
Tipler talks about the opposite.
It describes how the size of structures in the universe is too large to have evolved within the short duration of the universe predicted by BB. It also notes that many BB predictions are very much ex-post facto and several are highly unscientific, i.e., dark matter. He has an excellent concluding chapter deploring the loss of progress as a human ideal in the period after WWII.
cheers,
tim