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Re: Why not Both?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:30:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> I've read SF in which every alternate universe has slightly different
> fundamental constants. Brin has a great story, "the Practice Effect" on that
> line...
I've been thinking along those lines too due to this thread, and recalled a
"Raft" by Stephen Baxter in which gravity is much stronger than in our
universe. If I remember correctly it was quite a good read, although I'm not
a good enough physicist to comment on the plausability of the novel.
I'll look out for the book you mention.
Jennifer Clark
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| (...) Point taken but to continue splitting this particular hair, I agree with "everything" but not "creation" except inasmuch as the explanation is "god created (the starting point of) the universe", which is fine, since it's no better or worse an (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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