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	Fecund universes
		The fecund universes theory of cosmology advanced by Lee Smolin suggests that the rules of biology apply on the grandest scales.
		In this view, a collapsing fl hole causes the emergence of a new universe on the "other side", whose fundamental constant parameters (speed of light, Planck length and so forth) may differ slightly from those of the universe where the fl hole collapsed.
		Each universe therefore gives rise to as many new universes as it has fl holes, and the age of a universe can be told by counting up its fl holes.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fe/Fecund_universes.html (198 words)

	NCSE Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In such a case they would surely be pointing to the fecundity of the universe as evidence for the existence of their "intelligent designer".
		Notwithstanding the obvious differences between naturalistic universes that have no known intentions, alleged "designers" whose intentions cannot be clearly specified without undermining the political aspirations of ID creationists, and firing squads that have well-understood intentions, this argument is plain silly, and has been decisively refuted in Sober's paper (2003).
		William H. Jefferys is the Harlan J. Smith Centennial Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.ncseweb.org /resources/articles/784_review_of_emthe_privileged_p_6_7_2005.asp (2068 words)

	Western North Carolina Woman: temple cassara: painter of interior landscapes by peggy millin, julie parker and anne ...
		This painting became a journey to heal the separation between two parts of the artist: the dark goddess, earthy, primitive, fecund and sensual, and the virgin, pure, ethereal, and visionary aspects.
		Exploration of this separation revealed a further separation, one between the organ of inspiration (the heart) and the organs of procreation (the womb and vagina).
		She journeys through dark nights of the soul and back out into the light in a dreamworld of vibrant color, imagery, and a tumultuous outpouring of feminine energy.
	wnc-woman.com /02-0303temple.html (1109 words)

	Quantum Consciousness
		The universe is shown to be a natural consequence of consciousness, beginning with a "big bang." Consciousness is identified with existence, and the relation between existence and the self is explored.
		After that, only universes that are maximally fecund and maximally diverse are generated, and the probability is essentially one, or 100%, that a single universe chosen from the population of potential universes will be both maximally fecund and maximally diverse and complex.
		The wave function of the universe is the sum of the probability amplitudes for all of these potential histories, just as the wave function for a particle interaction is the sum of the amplitudes for all of the ways in which the interaction can occur.
	home.earthlink.net /~dolascetta/Metaphysics.html (10344 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fecund universes
		Each universe therefore gives rise to as many new universes as it has fl holes.
		Louis Crane has proposed a meduso-anthropic principle, which suggests that universes could be fine-tuned for life by intelligent beings themselves manufacturing new universes.
		Smolin's fecund universes theory was the subject of a science fiction short story by David Brin, entitled "What Continues, What Fails...", and was a common theme in Stephen Baxter's novel Manifold: Time and the rest of the manifold trilogy.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Fecund_universes (382 words)

	The Mediocre Universe - - science news articles online technology magazine articles The Mediocre Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If our universe had been created with lots of matter and energy, then the result should be a tremendous warping inward of space; eventually the universe’s expansion would be reversed, and it would collapse in a Big Crunch.
		Among the multitude of all possible universes, a few are bound by sheer chance to have the constants that allow for the rise of life.
		But he hadn’t considered that some universes may spawn far more civilizations than others--one universe might be harsh and allow life merely to squeak by, while another, more fecund universe might be teeming with millions of inhabited solar systems.
	discover.com /issues/feb-96/features/themediocreunive694 (4622 words)

	anthrodeism - ad fecund universes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Fecund universes" is a theory of evolutionary cosmology authored by physicist Lee Smolin.
		People in these universes would be able to take what they know about their realm and apply it to a new universe.
		If certain anthrodeities weren't particularly skillful, that universe would produce little or no life, and thus would not spawn so many new universes.
	joelthenerd.googlepages.com /fecunduniverses (109 words)

	Biocosmology1
		Indications are that the universe will continue to expand suggesting a hyperbolic inflation or fractal cosmic inflation (Linde 1992), in which the active tips of the universe are permanently inflating, to leave behind non-inflating bubble universes such as ours.
		Although life may be created and annihilated during the evolution of the universe from alpha to omega, just as the creation and anihilation of virtual particles are essential to quantum field theory, the biological forms and processes can have a cosmic origin as generic structures and a cosmic significance as culminating interactive complexity (fig 1).
		It asserts that fundamental properties of the universe may have been selected by the fact that only with such constraints on the laws of nature would there be a (complex biological) observer to witness the universe and examine its laws (Barrow and Tipler).
	www.dhushara.com /book/bchtm/biocos.htm (2821 words)

	Biocosmology5
		This is consistent with a universe whose underlying quantum dynamics are correlated in a way which is consistent with all the events being related parts of a whole which sources from the cosmic wave function itself, allowing for all manner of subtle interactive possibilities.
		Since the quantum transaction appears to be cosmologically general to all quantum interaction, its manifestation in resolving the fundamental questions of quantum interaction with the physical world adopts a wholly cosmological dimension in which the sentient conscious brain becomes a central avenue for the expression of quantum non-locality in space time.
		Is evolution simply adventitious accident, or is it part of the way the quantum universe explores its own phase space of possibilities in finally converging towards a universal solution to the expression of the quantum non-local substratum in the physical universe.
	www.dhushara.com /book/bchtm/biocos5.htm (3810 words)

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		Like organisms, he argues, universes reproduce, and the most fecund universes are the ones that happen to bring into being--as a mere by-product, an afterthought--Homo sapiens and such.
		Each time a baby universe is born, he submits, the parameters in its physical laws randomly shift their values a bit from those of the parent universe.
		Confronted by these questions, Smolin insisted that he had at least made "partial progress" against the "nostalgia for the Absolute." He was also careful to deny that he believes the cosmos is literally alive, as his popularizer John Gribbin claimed in his 1993 book In the Beginning.
	linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org /9706/insidep.html (831 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cosmological natural selection
		When applied to this assumption, the anthropic principle concludes that our universe is a rare exception within this large set of universes and that by chance it possesses exactly those characteristics necessary for life to exist.
		Since the number of universes is so large, it is expected that some of them will contain complexity.
		What Lee Smolin proposes is that a universe which produces more fl holes than any other would in fact possess the laws of physics our universe does.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection (1136 words)

	The Progressive
		When this happens, what you get is a new universe… spacetime crunches down to an infinitessimally small point, then the repulsive force of gravity causes this infinitesimally small super-dense bit of spacetime to explode, the result of which is a new universe with a slightly altered set of physics from the original.
		A fl hole forms in a parent universe, and a fecund universe with slightly different physics is the result, and in turn, fl holes form in this fecund universe, leading to another generation of fecund universes.
		This evokes what’s known as the weak anthropic principle, namely that the reason our universe and the physical law by which it operates seems so conducive to life is that there have been countless universes in the past that weren’t.
	theprogressive.wordpress.com (5567 words)

	Encyclopedia Search
		could help account for the missing mass of the universe.
		The processes have been refined since then, but are basically still the...
		, and the age of a universe can be told by counting up its fl
	www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Holes (233 words)

	The End of Christian Apologetics Pt3
		All life, the universe, and all creatures are an expression of love, they exist to know love and to ultimately return to love.
		Whether it was the organizing of basic matter (atoms) or superstructures of the emerging universe, from the very beginning God was organizing all to move toward consciousness and then to move on toward God and love.
		The universe is purposeful and not random in the sense that it is from God and moving toward God and love.
	www.freechristians.com /FC_Editorials/The_God_Beyond_Apologetics.htm (8716 words)

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		By marrying the two fields, she and her colleagues have formulated a picture in which our universe may be seen as a soap-film-like membrane (a "braneworld") sitting inside a much larger space: the bulk.
		String cosmologists routinely write papers about the "populations" of universes that would arise from particular versions of their equations, conjuring into being with a few lines of symbols infinite arrays of other worlds.
		The extra dimensions of string theory and the other universes they might entail have never been observed and, in principle, they may not be observable, at least not directly.
	www.smart90.com /tvimagazine/2005/4505/109StringtheoryNBS.htm (2945 words)

	Francisca Blázquez: The dimensional objects of Francisca Blázquez , por Gregorio MoralesKatsuki
		The surfaces bend, narrowed, grown, improbably folded, are unfolded as reflected in the water or expand from capricious forms, although with harmony, in always beautiful and simple colors.
		She knows how to lead with extreme skill among the labyrinths of the most varied and vast dimensions with the clearness of acrylic touches or the precision of a computer, transforming it into concrete objects.
		For that reason, the artist has overlapped geometry, movement and body in one of her beautiful and most lucky series, 'Dance and Dimensional Geometry', from which we could mention "Love", where the geometric thing incarnates itself in the dancers, and "Dancing Triangles", in which both dancing and geometry are glued.
	www.franciscablazquez.net /critica_arte_dimensional_objects.htm (1249 words)

	Episode 407 - The World Turns All Around Her
		Trance tells Dylan that there are many universes on the other side of the portal, and not all are evil.
		Dylan asks her who and what she really is. Trance tells him that she is the avatar of a sun, with the power to create and destroy.
		She changes into a sun, which expands, consuming the ship, until they are re-made in their home universe.
	www.laurabertram.net /eldoradodrift/episodes/ep_407.html (1000 words)

	"Testability" thread is great (keeping comment/discussion out works, too)
		CNS prediction challenges you to find a constant which if you tweak it would tune the universe to be better at producing lots of hole.
		The framework of LQG is more robust, at least there are formulae for the contraction and posterior expansion of the Universe.
		CNS conjecture, also known as Fecund Universes theory, was somehow alterated by Louis Crane to produce a new conjecture called the Meduso-anthropic principle
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=79413 (1713 words)

	Amazon.com: Before the Beginning: Books: Martin Rees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		What we call the universe is likely to be just one member of an ensemble, but ours may be in an unusual subset that permits complexity and consciousness to develop.
		Our universe could be an atom in an infinite collection, a cosmic archipelago in which impassable barriers prohibit communication between the islands.
		It deals with the origin of the universe that was created ex nihilo (zero energy), the evolution of the universe (with a first millisecond as an eventful era, and the first 10-36 seconds as an inflationary expansion).
	www.amazon.com /Before-Beginning-Martin-Rees/dp/074323099X (2846 words)

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		One of the more challenging consequences of quantum theory is that parallel universes are more definite possibilities (at least on paper) than most physicists are willing to entertain.
		Under the theory of parallel universes, every time something changes from one state to another, a change of any kind occurring in the universe, two potential futures are created.
		These potential futures are equally valid, equally likely, and indeed, if your consciousness is in the timeline of the first potential future, you will be completely unaware of the other, despite a parallel you existing there too.
	www.epinions.com /content_124667399812 (1698 words)

	Damn Interesting » Evolving Universes
		Thus, our universe which has complexity and is therefore very successful at creating fl holes/new universes is spawning universes that also have complexity, and will pass that trait onto their progeny … much like evolution.
		Perhaps their "chemistry" would be based on gravitational interactions leading to life the size of our solar systems, or it could be based on some subatomic reactions, leading to life as complex as mammals and birds at the size of bacteria.
		The idea of Universes being born at the other end of fl holes is fascinating, but all I see is millions and millions more universes.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=645 (9829 words)

	Maverick Philosopher Pollack, Dawkins, and Design
		Also, if multiple Universes are instantiated, with a random distribution of laws, natural constants, etc., we of course will find ourselves asking these questions only in those rare worlds where the laws permit sufficient order and complexity for life to emerge and evolve.
		You are bringing in a lot, but let me comment briefly on Smolin's fecund universes theory.
		This leaves unexplained the whole system of infinitely (?) regressive universes emerging from fl holes contained in universes, etc. A mistake I am sure you are not making is confusing a fl hole with nothingness.
	maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com /posts/1125954765.shtml (2497 words)

	Quantum Mechanics (philosophical implications) - The Brights' Movement Forums
		I just think that Lee Smolin's theory of "fecund universes" is a much more interesting (and testable!) contender.
		As such existence would mean what it implies i.e., the other universes are full there in and of themselves, its just that without time travel there is no comunication between the universes and no way to detect them (aside from interference phenomena and quantum computation)
		So to be more conservative we can side step time travel and say that the other "universes" have no real existence for us EXCEPT when we confgure an experiment of a quantum computer to benefit from the calculating power of the other universe.
	www.the-brights.net /forums/forum/index.php?showtopic=3455 (2943 words)

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