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• Review: Infinite Crisis – Greg Cox

  
  Z District — Authority: 134
  The world is falling apart around its greatest heroes. Batman’s paranoia has led him to create a supercomputer that has rebelled against him, threatening the entire world. Wonder Woman has slain a former ally to save the life of another. And Superman has lost his ability to lead, lost their faith, and lost his faith ...
  1 week ago

• Virtual consumption: the thesis | Virtual Economy Research Network

  
  futuramb's wider net — Authority: 128
  Virtual consumption: the thesis | Virtual Economy Research Network : A PhD thesis in the growing issue of consumption of virtual goods. Seen from the perspective that our economies are shifting towards producing and consuming experiences instead of products and services this trend isn’t hard to explain. - People ...
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• An Infinite God vs. An Infinite Maker of Infinite Numbers of Gods

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 581
  Ive never understood the appeal of the notion of a multiverse for atheists. It substitutes, in place of an infinite God, an inexplicable mechanism capable of producing an infinite number of universes. Among those universes, presumably one has Jesus spontaneously rise from the dead (in an infinite universe or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science!: Table-Top Black Holes, NSA Building a World Computer, and The Future Sabotage of the LHC

  
  Groonk.Net:ScaredYet? — Authority: 126
  Science, you engine of discovery. What have you been doing the last few weeks? Table-Top Black Holes The desktop black hole , described in a paper submitted to arXiv on Monday, is made from 60 concentrically arranged layers of circuit board. Each layer is coated in copper and printed with patterns that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Physicists Calculate Alternative Universes

  
  Not Even Wrong — Authority: 544
  According to a story in the Stanford Daily , the recent arXiv preprint mentioned here and discussed many other places on the web has given us two new scientific celebrities: Two of Stanford’s physicists, Professor Andrei Linde and postdoctoral researcher Vitaly Vanchurin, have garnered recent celebrity-status ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ergodic Means…

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 425
  The topic of this post is something I’ve been wondering about for quite a while. This afternoon I had half an hour spare after a quick lunch so I thought I’d look it up and see what I could find. The word ergodic is one you will come across very frequently in the literature of statistical physics, and in ...
  2 weeks ago

• If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There?

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Written by Nancy AtkinsonTheoretical physics has brought us the notion that our single universe is not necessarily the only game in town. Satellite data from WMAP, along with string theory and its 11- dimensional hyperspace idea has produced the concept of the multiverse, where the Big Bang could have produced many ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beware of old guys bearing formulas

  
  Avatar Briefs — Authority: 129
  
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• Fine Tuning for Androids

  
  New Life From Old — Authority: 110
  At the Christians in Science meeting here in Edinburgh tonight we were considering and discussing the idea of the fine tuning of the universe that gives rise to the Anthropic Principle . In a nutshell our universe appears to be very precisely set up for carbon based lifeforms such as ourselves to emerge from it. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Transfinite Consciousness

  
  http://newilluminati.blog-city.com — Authority: 423
  Transfinite Consciousness               Written by Abdun Nur    (Ibn Arabi expressed a view of the structure of reality; his views are presented at the end of this essay to allow a comparison.) ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Search of the Multiverse

  
  Not Even Wrong — Authority: 544
  The ongoing pseudo-scientific multiverse mania continues, with the recent publication in the UK of a new book by John Gribbin promoting this to the public: In Search of the Multiverse . Gribbin expounds at length the usual string theory anthropic landscape/multiverse ideology, carefully avoiding introducing any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book News and Views

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 121
  Yay! Here is another super list of book-related links for your perusing pleasure. I missed Banned Books Week this year. Apparently, a book about gay penguins was the most frequently challenged book . I think people who believe penguins are gay are pretty “challenged” myself. (BBC) Roger Ebert tells us in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quantum Universe Bifurcation for your iPhone

  
  Webomator Blog — Authority: 110
  Now you - yes, you! – can turn your iPhone into a Quantum Universe Splitter , enabling you to branch into alternate universes whenever you’re faced with a problem that has two possible solutions. Chocolate, or vanilla? World Peace, or World Domination? Fritters, or bagels? Because as they tell us, every one of ...
  4 weeks ago

• First Law of Planetary Building

  
  Maurizio - Omnologos — Authority: 112
  First Law of Planetary Building: no two planets will ever be alike . Corollary #1: if two planets are almost identical, then at least one of them will have at least one outrageously peculiar feature. Corollary #2: Universes made of perfectly identical planets are not allowed . The First Law is manifest in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Family Guy: Road to Multiverse

  
  Main Ingredient Lifestyle Company — Authority: 133
  I saw this last night and thought it blew my mind.  Check out right at the 9:28 mark for an incredible look at Family Guy, Disney sty-lo.  Just magic.  Old man Herbert the Pervert plays the Witch from Snow White and you get to see Family Guy in a plethora of other new lights including Seth [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Enterprise Virtual Worlds to See Real-World Growth

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 801
  3-D virtual world applications for enterprise use will grow into an industry earning $8 billion to $10 billion in annual revenue by 2014, according to a new report from GigaOM Pro (subscription required). Today, virtual worlds are primarily associated with role-playing games and avatar-based chat, but analysts Kris ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is this SF? Fantasy? Slipstream? Philosophy? Maybe all of the above.

  
  FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT — Authority: 401
  We work to make the many worlds better.There. That’s the official line.Title: TransitionAuthor: Iain M. BanksYear: 2009Rating: 3 out of 5 starsAt first glance, the latest novel from Banks is a conspiracy thriller set against the context of a familiar science fiction concept: the existence of a multiverse ...
  4 weeks ago

• Promissory Atheism and Promissory Theism

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  I”ve been thinking about something that the late Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Eccles, said of strict materialism. He called it “promissory materialism”, and said of it: “I regard this theory as being without foundation. The more we discover scientifically about the brain the more clearly do we ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bad Boys of the Multiverse: An Alternate Universe Reading Guide [Book Review]

  
  Talk Stories — Authority: 155
  Have we gone multiverse crazy? Iain Banks latest novel, Transition , is just the latest of a long line of sideways-traveling books, and this theme is more prevalent than ever. Here are some of my favorites, with spoilers and foul language. The idea of traveling between alternate realities is a common theme in ...
  5 weeks ago

• Proving Shroedinger’s Cat and The Montauk Chair

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  Can a real world version of quantum theory’s “Shroedinger’s Cat” be finally realized and proof that ‘living’ objects can be subjected to ’superposition?’ In quantum theory, a single object can be doing two different things at once. This so-called “superposition” is a delicate state, destroyed by ...
  7 weeks ago

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