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Originally Posted by futuretalk
EARTH 12000: EXPLORING SPACE, TIME, AND PARALLEL UNIVERSES
A glance at what life may be like ten millennia from now -- By Dick Pelletier
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This post say a lot of not much and never really addresses the title of this thread --
"What about Earth in 12,000 AD" ???
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Originally Posted by futuretalk
Consensus among most scientists has been that wormholes are so destructive; people would be torn to subatomic bits if they tried such a thing. However, a new paper by University of Utah physicist Lior Burko now raises the possibility that wormholes may not annihilate all matter, and the potential for hyperspace travel could one day be realized.
“One possibility is that wormholes may allow us to travel to very remote places in the universe, or to another universe entirely,” said Burko. “It depends on the topology of the universe, which today, we do not know very well… I’m not arguing it’s a practical thing to do, but in thousands of years from now it may become simpler.”
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Please provide a link (or a citation) to the paper, as I would like to read it (not one I have
to pay for).
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Originally Posted by futuretalk
Could a forward vision like this ever happen? Given the rise of religious fundamentalism and a growing anti-science movement, there could be rough sledding ahead, but positive-thinkers believe that with determination and good fortune, this “magical future” will become reality.
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Forward Vision ??? What was that old marketing phrase -- "where's the beef" of this
post ?
maddog
