6.11.02
Connect The Dots

"Stephen (Wolfram) is saying that the computer is not the tool, the computer is the thing. That nature is a computer, that each little cell is a computer. That's his message."

--- Terrence Sejnowski, director, computational neurobiology lab for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at the U. of California, San Diego

Wolfram article: Forbes /// Wolfram article: NYT

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"Inflationary universes need not be natural."
--- Guth's Grand Guess
(see: MetaFilter discussion)

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"The brain is hard-wired to perceive space and time as interconnected."
--- Anybody Really Know What Time Is?

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"Reality beyond 3-D on verge of detection"

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David Deutsch, quantum physicist home page ; received Paul Dirac prize and medal from the Institute of Physics for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics:

"The photon that we can't see is a photon in a nearby parallel universe which is interacting with the photon in our universe and causing it to change its direction. The result of these single photon inference experiments is the strangest thing I know.
It is conclusive evidence that reality does not consist of just a single universe because that result could not come about unless there were another nearby universe interacting with ours."

"When one travels back in time one does not in general reach the same universe that one starts from. One reaches the past of a different universe."

Nova transcript

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Guenter Nimtz, U. of Cologne; head researcher, faster-than-light experiment (super luminal tunneling)
"...what these experiments have shown is that you can, in principle, look into the past. And it is also possible to reverse cause and effect..."

The Quantum Connection

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Kip S. Thorne, Feynman professor of theoretical physics
(Thorne is responsible for the "wormhole" theory of space-time)

Nova OnLine: Time Travel I II



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