With respect to Dr.'s Cirkovic and Bostrom, I never bought their argument. I
rather, hold with the notion, as does Kurzweil, that nothing stands up to
technological life, over an extended period, not even physical laws. We may
indeed obtain FTL ships, or mechanisms, or beams to manipulate extremely
remote, areas of the universe-but certainly not by the 23rd or 24th centuries
(sorry Trekies).
Lets go back to the Fermi question of why are there not signs of intelligence
among the heavens? The best answer I think, is the awareness of gamma ray
bursts being produced by black holes and colliding neuron stars. Let us
consider that such spectacular energy productions, have slowed-down
considerably since the start of spacetime. As claimed by some physicists, the
cosmos of 10 billion years will be pulsing with life. We poor humans must the
be living in the 'pre-cambrian' of this universe.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0110/0110162.pdf
<<As far as I remember, the expansion will move fast enough to make it
impossible to outrun it unless you have a superluminal ship. See
"Cosmological Constant and the Final Anthropic Hypothesis" by Milan M.
Cirkovic and Nick Bostrom: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9906042
which is *very* gloomy.
We better find a way of making baby universes *fast*. >>
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