>From a report on present physics breakthroughs in multiverse theory,
published in this week's US News and World Report:
'Because the cosmos is ancient by our measure, people assume they are
latecomers, gazing out into a universe worn down and faltering. But if
the firmament will expand for an enormous span of time, or even for an
eternity, then our universe glistens with morning dew. Homo sapiens
may represent a youth movement, arriving at a time when almost
everything is still to come. Dreary projections about ultimate fates
may be supplanted by the belief that, like the cosmos itself, the human
prospect is, as the physicist Freeman Dyson once wrote, 'infinite in
all directions.''
Gregg Easterbrook