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From: mjs@eagle.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
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Subject: Re: Quantum Universe
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:38:23 EDT
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> > I've just read an interesting article in the August 3, 1985
> > Science News titled "The Quantum Universe : A Zero-Point 
> > Fluctuation?". In the article a Mr (Dr?) Don N. Page of the
> > Institute of Advanced Study in Prinction N.J. is credited with
> > the following observation:
> > 
> > 	"Page estimates that the chances of 'The Creator sticking
> > 	 in a pin' and pulling out just this combination of qualities
> > 	 that makes such a unique universe are way beyond
> > 	 astronomical, 1 in (10,000,000,000)^124."

A more interesting set of questions (to my mind, anyway) is, ``How many of
those universes are stable enough to continue to exist for more than a
nanosecond?  A second?  A year?  As long as this one?''  For that matter,
``Are any of them as stable as this one?''

And, of course, ``What is the meaning of life?''
-- 
	Marty Shannon
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