In a message dated 10/19/1999 11:13:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rhanson@gmu.edu writes:
> The SciAm article also says that Steven Frautschi of Caltech
> in 82 explored the possibility of scavenging mass to feed a
> black hole in an expanding universe. But neither the article
> nor the preprint cite any such paper.
>
> Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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I have read a work called 5 Ages of the Universe, by a couple of
astrophysicists from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who might dispute
with Professor Frautschi on the continuence of computation and life over
Petaplexes of years. The there's people like Tipler at Tulane, or Max
Tegmark, now at Penn State, who provide their own solutions to extinction.
Michio Kaku might even have a word or two with Frautschi.
We don't know enough about the cosmos to make such pronuncements, as the big
wheels in the 19th century did in their pridefulness.