Escape from the universe - [wild, but fun, speculations from physicist Michio Kaku]

Prospect Magazine (U.K.) ^ | February 2005 issue | Michio Kaku

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I didn't know that Kaku had become a T.V. star.

[DannyTN]

"the only strategy consistent with the laws of physics: leaving this universe."

Option II: Make friends with the Creator of this universe. This can be thought of as making friends with an advanced civiliation that has and has demonstrated advanced technology including: creation of matter, instant weather control, instant physical healing, anti-gravity, etc....

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If there was only a gateway for atomic sized materials you can send INFORMATION and replicate your civilization, members, history and data on the other side as well.

Kaku mentions sending nanobots. Information alone wouldn't do it, I think. There must be an actor of some sort to instantiate the information on the 'other side' (if there is an 'other side').

[RightWhale]

you can send INFORMATION and replicate your civilization

Puts our civilization on the level of Dr Laura's sperm donors.

[beezdotcom]

Yes, but how to escape a dying multiverse? Why is nobody thinking about THIS problem?

Get to work!

Okay...I'll need a couple of coat hangers, some Vienna sausages, an AM radio, and the latest issue of Teen Beat. I should have this knocked out in a couple of hours...

[Tax Government]

What if this cosmos, our current home, is the one and only cosmos that has ever been or will ever be?

Every morning when I wake up, the whole universe gets recreated instantly from scratch, right up to last night. That's how I think it works, anyway.

[PhilipFreneau]

The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze.

Pure science fiction.

[Tax Government]

If one wants to survive the demise of the universe, then plan to die.

[Centurion2000]

Kaku mentions sending nanobots. Information alone wouldn't do it, I think

Of course, I was referring that in addition to nanobots, a civilization could send it's library, genetic library and other databases as well as the nanobot. Next time I will be a little more precise with the language.

[aruanan]

Escape from the universe - [wild, but fun, speculations from physicist Michio Kaku]

Man! I saw a poster the day AFTER that he was to talk here at the University of Chicago.

[snarks_when_bored]

If one wants to survive the demise of the universe, then plan to die.

"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."  —Josey Wales

[Dissident Aggressor]

I'm not too hip on the robot plan. Seems to me that just when things are working right, the robots usually flip out and kill all the humans.

Damned robots.

[Captainpaintball]

bflr

[snarks_when_bored]

The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze.

Pure science fiction.

Which part? It's well-established now that the expansion of the universe is in an acceleration phase. If the acceleration increase over time, the eventual fate of the universe does indeed appear to be a big freeze, and maybe even what's been called a 'big rip', in which all matter is ripped apart the expansion force.

[Old Professer]

Maybe it's like a Super Mario game.

[snarks_when_bored]

I'm not too hip on the robot plan. Seems to me that just when things are working right, the robots usually flip out and kill all the humans.

Damned robots.

Yeah, dontcha just hate it when that happens?

[null and void]

Bump for later read

[RightWhale]

Brian Greene says that the force that caused inflation and the force now causing acclerating expansion is no more and no less than gravity. Apparently we do not understand gravity, Newton or not.

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'increases' for 'increase' in #54.

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And 'ripped apart by' for 'ripped apart' in #54! Dang.