Kiln People

2002-01-14 Thread hal
I've started reading the new novel from SF writer David Brin, Kiln People. He describes it at his web site, http://www.kithrup.com/brin/othersfbooks.html: : Take the notion of golems-- temporary clay people (not clones!) -- and : now imagine a near future when everybody can make them. Using a "ho

The Edge on Multiverse Theories

2002-01-14 Thread hal
The online magazine The Edge has a set of "hard questions" by experts and notables in a variety of fields, some of which discuss multiverse theories. http://www.edge.org/q2002/question.02_index.html. Paul Davies critiques the multiverse+anthropic_principle explanation for what we see, in http://