In a message dated 9/16/00 3:08:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au writes:
<< Maybe we can get by without higher-dimensional waves (or branes, whatever),
or maybe that's just the kind of world we're in so we use what we can get
our hands on. Either way, I don't know how to make that final unzipping
occur. Run the code-string into solar plasma vortices? Into a planetary van
Allen belt? Into the accretion disk of a black hole? All these have been
suggested in fiction as habitats for smart signal resonances. I'm wondering
if anyone here can come up with better proposals.
Damien Broderick >>
Certainly several physicists have reflected on this "unzipping" capability as
a way to resolve Stephen Hawkings hypothesis that information is utterly
destroyed when it is ultimately gathered up into cosmic black holes. The
physicists in question, tended to see Hawkings postulate as being a-causal;
and have re-worked his analysis to not destroy information, but to contain it
holographically around the horizon-wall of a blackhole, using our
understanding of M-brane theory. Rucker's book was great, yet it relied on
electro-magnetism as a basis, and EM gets over-whelmed by gravity. M-Brane +
general relativity gets us further along the axis of knowledge, I suspect.
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