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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: average joe who wrote (9652)2/20/2007 3:01:12 PM
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Yeah, I do. Even at the speed of light with a crew that will only age by their own clock, they would still have to have the capacity to feed themselves for 8 years; there and back again. Can't assume they can find food on the other end of their trip. And so far, we don't have the capacity to go thru

Stephen Hawking's Wormholes
It is ironic that the principal criticism of Thorne's wormholes comes from Stephen Hawking, whose own theory proposes an infinite number of parallel universes connected by wormholes. Hawking and his collaborator Jim Hartle have two main components to their theory: imaginary time and the wave-function of the universe. They propose an imaginary time running at right angles to ordinary time and without beginning or end or any singularities. They plan to use imaginary time to calculate the wave-function of the universe, thus proving our universe stable and unique. They will start with an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of different characteristics, then calculate the wave-function to see if it is largest around our own. They have essentially resurrected the many-worlds theory with one important difference - tiny wormholes connect the universes, thus making this theory testable and providing a small but calculable chance of an object quantum-leaping into one of the parallel universes. The image below exemplifies many such bubble universes, some rich and some barren, some connected to many others, some virtually isolated.
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