[cripplecreek]

Professor Hubert Farnsworth has already done it.

[lmr]

Mr. Grene, what color is the sky in your universe?

[Larry Lucido]

Boy, this is gonna send real estate prices tumbling.

[LibWhacker]

Click on the NPR link and you can listen to a 10-minute interview with Brian Greene in which he says you could theoretically build our universe with as little as 10 pounds of "seed" matter!

[sourcery]

The "shock value" of this idea relies on misusing the term "universe." By definition, there is only one universe. To speak of "multiple universes" necessarily involves a new, different meaning of "universe."

Of course, the same fate befell the term "world."

My prediction: This new meaning of "universe" will eventually come to be accepted as its canonical meaning, and some new term will have to be adopted with the same meaning as the term "universe" had originally.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I thought the US treasury was a black hole.

[adorno]

I don't know about you but, I haven't finished exploring the universe we have now to even consider building another one.

[gb63]

I do understand the basic concepts reported in the article, and so it being a serious theory, I hesitate launching one of my lighter blurbs...but, do you suppose that our current universe is the result of some sharp teen-ager playing around in a higher universe with a school homework lab?

[KoRn]

This guy needs to lay off the acid.

[JustDoItAlways]

Every now and again, I imagine some alien civilization out there gets snuffed out by a physics experiment gone wrong.

What followed the start of the first universe?

A monstrous fireball that inflated about 100 million light years in a few hours.

Create that universe and you snuff out every living thing and every star within 100 million light years (which would be thousands of galaxies.)

[timer]

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity saith the PREACHER. Men thinking of themselves as gods, just like satan...

[tang-soo]

... decided that what He'd done "was good."

Actually on the sixth day, after having created man, God said "it was very good."

[Boiler Plate]

Sounds like Sid Meiers is working on Civilization V.

[onedoug]

Note the source. I'm surprised the heretofore respectable Andre Linde would have anything to do with this.

[AndyTheBear]

it is theoretically not impossible...

More like his way of saying "I fantasized the other day about..."

[woofie]

Me and a few good dogs.... sounds good

[Grizzled Bear]

Greene also describes a kind of energy, called a "repulsive force," that might be capable of turning that seed into a new universe.
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Please do NOT post any Helen Thomas pictures! I had a really bad day already!!!

[IronJack]

The Democrats already have one, where up is down, lwft is right, strong is weak, right is wrong, Hillary makes a great president, Ted Kennedy is guarding the bar, Al Gore is considered an expert on something, and Howard Dean is the spokesman for something other than Dr. Loonbizkit's Strait Jackets.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Aw heck. The Magratheans have been doing this sort of thing in huge tracts of hype-space for millenia.

Just ask their fjord designer.

[Solitar]

Our universe may have gotten started by some entity playing around in a physics lab. Maybe it sowed a bunch of universes but only a few were viable -- the rest self-aborted or just never got off the ground.

Then maybe those physics experimenters put their playthings away and left this and maybe other universes to fend for themselves -- for better or worse. Could we call those entities deadbeat dads?