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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (337)	11/20/2000 5:44:40 PM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 480

"God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else" by Michael S. Malone, Forbes ASAP, 11-27-00 forbes.com A go-between brings Malone to the interview on a circuitous route to protect Wolfram's privacy. Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" is based on his studies of cellular automata and the mathematical rules governing their behavior. Here's his take on evolution: In other words, you don't need natural selection to pare down evolution to a few robust forms. Rather, organisms evolve outward to fill all the possible forms available to them by the rules of cellular automata. Complexity is destiny--and Darwin becomes a footnote. "I've come to believe," says Wolfram, "that natural selection is not all that important." After a decade of searching for confirmation in the natural world, he's got... the Textile Cone Shell. However, considering that he's spent much of his free time at a computer in his upstairs office, that's understandable. The book is four years late and has swelled to 1200 pages, but maybe it'll be out by next summer. Sounds like it will make good beach reading. The Amazon.com Sales Rank is already < 300 on advance orders !!! "Simpleisassimpledoes." WT

To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (337)	12/27/2000 12:27:37 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 480

Crow ; The problem with all the theories is that what we see in space no matter how we see it it's History --------------- We could still see all the signs of an expanding universe going on forever right up to the time a contracting universe arrived at our door step. If a quasar or some such was coming at us at the speed of light, or us at it , the event horizon would arrive without notice as a wave just behind the most historic data we are able to see.. ------------ No way to see what's coming at us at the speed of light not even with radar, it could have 1/2 that speed and us the other 1/2 and we couldn't see it before we became part of it. The laws of probability dictate that eventually our solar system winds up on a collision course with something no one can see, taht is unless we somehow learn to exceed the speed of light before our luck runs out. Jim