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	Imaginary Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Imaginary time was introduced to avoid singularities, or points at which the spacetime curvature becomes infinite, that occur in ordinary time.
		Imaginary time too would be curved by matter in the universe and therefore would meet the three spatial dimensions to form a closed surface like that of Earth.
		In theory, the universe should have a wave-function much like those of elementary particles, except that the universe's would tell which of a multitude of universes, instead of which position, is most likely.
	library.thinkquest.org /27930/time.htm (459 words)

	Stephen Hawking and the No Boundary Proposal
		If the universe exists in another time reference where conditions are permanent or static, suddenly it doesn't matter that we humans so convincingly observe a beginning and a possible future end to our ordinary clock time, since the other time reference applies regardless of our sense of where we are in time.
		The concept of imaginary time and the no boundary proposal are still evolving theories, but they do seem to be telling us that the direction of our ordinary clock time is simply a path toward another place in existence.
		On the other hand, Feynman's imaginary time is meant to explain quantum mechanics, which by many is said to predict all other equally possible worlds, which is known as the Many Worlds Theory.
	everythingforever.com /hawking.htm (2441 words)

	Imaginary power - Uncyclopedia
		"Imaginary power" is similar to "imagination power" in that they both have a form of imagine in them and they both have the word power and in that they mean the same thing.
		Imaginary power took Depression-era America by storm, much to the consternation of Edison who resorted to selling direct current as a "No imaginary power here, it's all 100% real energy" marketing tactic.
		With all of the nation's imaginary enemies defeated (the US never did consider Europe to be anything more than imaginary at the best of times) the last barrier to world domination was gone.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Imaginary_power (834 words)

	Fictional universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fictional universe is a cohesive imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction or translatable non-fiction.
		A common method for illustrating fictional universes is for the creator to focus the majority of his or her attention on one small area, revealing the larger world through hints or exposition.
		A fictional universe may even concern itself with more than one interconnected universe through theoretically viable devices such as "parallel worlds" or universes, and a series of interconnected universes is called a multiverse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imaginary_universe (1115 words)

	Support: Science ["The Anthropic Principle"]
		His "universes" are computer simulations, the output of a program that he wrote and has named--a bit provocatively--"Monkey God." Stenger does not plan out the universes that he creates; he has allowed particle masses and force strengths to vary randomly, many orders of magnitude different from the levels observed in nature.
		The behavior of stars and atoms in imaginary universes might seem like a topic unlikely to interest anyone who is not a theoretical physicist.
		Given enough universes, sooner or later one is likely to hit upon the "right" combination for life (even assuming only one type of life is possible).
	www.iit.edu /~reevkev/cext/support/zdetailgod.html (3515 words)

	Imaginary world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imaginary worlds have been the subject of cosmological and philosophical speculation since ancient times.
		Imaginary settings need not reflect or resemble the natural world, and logic, physics and plausibility are frequently ignored or violated.
		Imaginary places are best known from myth and fiction, such as where a purposely-created fiction forms part of a fictional universe, and provide background information and locale for the story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imaginary_world (187 words)

	Baby Universes, Children of Blackholes (Hawking speech)
		Imaginary time may sound like science fiction, but it is a well defined mathematical concept.
		The number of particles in the baby universe, will be equal to the number of particles that fell into the fl hole, plus the number of particles that the fl hole emits, during its evaporation.
		Although baby universes may not be much use for space travel, they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.
	www.ralentz.com /old/astro/hawking-2.html (1494 words)

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		The imaginary cloud that science fiction authors are often accused of creating quite regularly becomes astute vision and a clear picture of what the future holds for man kind.
		Imaginary universes populated by unhuman beings are the chief proponent of the biological-oriented themes.
		Imaginary beings are generally of two types: artificial creations such as androids and robots; or aliens, products of a diverse evolutionary process.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/1/79.01.05.x.html (5118 words)

	Creation Proof
		If I calculate the probability of the chance occurrence of various events in the universe, I discover time after time that it is a mathematical certainty that chance has nothing to do with their existence.
		The portion of the universe produced by evolution must be zero for the mathematical proof to be true.
		We are not measuring the imaginary embellishments of the reader, but simply the mechanical construction of the sequence of symbols written on paper.
	home.att.net /~Jerry-L-Duke/Book/Chapter_3.html (3057 words)

	Lively Answers to Theists
		There are three possibilities if the universe had a beginning in time: Either time begins with the universe, or time exists for a finite period before the universe, or time exists for an infinite period before the beginning of the universe.
		The first two options, (a) that time begins with the universe and (b) that it exists finitely before the universe, require that time itself be caused, which is problematic whether that cause is conceived as preceding or coinciding with the beginning of time.
		We cannot observe the actualization of possible universes; indeed, since possible universes are imaginary, they are not there to be observed (Le Poidevin is aware that modal realists hold that all possible universes are actual, but he argues that modal realism itself creates intractable problems for theistic arguments).
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/keith_parsons/lively.html (3132 words)

	Exhibit 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Students try to find out how many objects they can make in each of two imaginary universes with different construction rules.
		The quarks in these universes are unix cubes.
		If the rules for quarks were to change, then the universe would be very different than it is now.
	ed.fnal.gov /lsc_exhibits/exhibit7.html (119 words)

	Options for Origins
		Example: A university student who’s just trying to get a passing grade might be satisfied with loading up his short-term memory with the data he’s received.
		The evidences for the fine-tuning of the universe to permit life to exist on one medium-sized planet, third from the left, are mounting.
		• The fine-tuning of the universe is merely a coincidence.
	www.y-zine.com /options.htm (444 words)

	The Wave Function of the Universe
		This is because imaginary time travels at right angles to ordinary time and "meets" with the three spatial dimensions to create a smooth surface similar to the surface of the earth.
		The wave-function is large near our own universe and infinitesimal near others in which life is impossible or the known laws of physics do not apply.
		Because of the wave-function's concentration in our own universe, it is the most likely of them all, but there is a chance - albeit vanishingly small - that an object from this universe would suddenly make a quantum leap into another one.
	library.thinkquest.org /27930/wavefunction.htm (960 words)

	The Shape of Our Universe by Dr. Sarah
		Aristotle argued that the universe is finite on the grounds that a boundary was necessary to fix an absolute reference frame, which was important to his worldview.
		Gauss was born in Brunswick (Germany) and was educated and later became a professor at the University in Gvttingen.
		For example, if the universe were a 3-sphere and you could see all the way around the universe (the distance of a great circle), how would you know that the universe is spherical.
	www.mathsci.appstate.edu /~sjg/class/1010/wc/geom/universe2a.html (3337 words)

	QUASAR9: Window on the Universe
		Smolin's (bulk) flholes are in our universe, their event horizon or 'boundary' as we have established is set by the 'shock waves' and gravity - like the 'boundary' of the earth's atmosphere - but on a massive solar system scale, or supermassive galactic scale.
		The Universe is composed of countless such droplets.
		For sure microscopic and subatomic universes (and nano-technology) exist in their dimension under an electron microscope.
	quasar9.blogspot.com /2006/09/window-on-universe.html (626 words)

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		On the other hand, it's a truly ironic preference for scientists given the purely speculative and absolutely undetectable nature of these hypothesized other universes (whether reference is to "baby universes", "multiple imaginary universes", "bubble universes", or "parallel universes").
		It goes on to say that "theoretical science now begins to address the possibility that purpose and intelligence are indeed intrinsic to the nature and operation of the universe"(11).
		Michael Ruse, professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, similarly admits that these "science wars"–-as these dichotomous debates are sometimes called–-are not conducted exclusively by humanities and social science professors, but have been promoted and affirmed by those in the hard sciences as well (Mystery of Mysteries 3).
	bahai-library.com /?file=harmsen_coming_synthesis.html (2183 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Lancaster, Interacting with Babylon 5
		The desire to enter imaginary environments is predicated on a desire to become what the simulacrum suggests.
		They evoke, for some, places of wonder—imaginary universes where fantasy is, at times, more desirable than the everyday reality of a Presidential impeachment, El Niño phenomena, school shootings, and third-world nuclear brinkmanship.
		I contend that one of the reasons fans see the same film dozens of times, perform in role-playing games, dress up in costumes, play video games, and read novels based on films is to try to recapture—through participation and immersion— the original cathartic moment experienced during the first viewing of the originating material.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlanint.html (4454 words)

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		DIU Descriptions of an Imaginary Universe (or University/Univercity, DIU) was a periodical I assembled during the mid-1990s as a graduate student in the English Department at University of Albany-SUNY.
		The university has become an institutional organization of the ignorance; “high culture” itself is being degraded in the assembly-line production of professors, all of whom are cretins and most of whom would get the bird from any audience of highschoolers.
		It has been reported at other universities that researchers have tampered with their results in scientific experiments in order to make it appear that cures for cancer and other dread diseases may be at hand.
	web.njit.edu /~funkhous/2002/interpoesia/DIU2002a.doc (15568 words)

	USNews.com: Universe: The gods must be crazy
		Astronomers and physicists are busy compiling the universe's stats--its age, composition, and the nature and strength of the forces at work in it.
		But instead of becoming simpler, as scientists had hoped, this new portrait of the universe is an ever more random-seeming hodgepodge of apparently unconnected constants, particles, forces, and masses.
		To live in a universe where only 4 percent of matter is ordinary matter I find awkward at best, implausible at the least, but there it is." Even worse, he said, was WMAP's confirmation that most of the substance of the universe consists of a mysterious "dark energy" that is pushing all of space apart.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/030908/8weird.htm (559 words)

	Options for Origins
		One might imagine that the universe could plausibly bake up just about anything in that much time, but even the 13.7 billion years that cosmologists estimate for the age of the universe is way too short for life to have reasonably arisen by natural means.
		They have speculated that our universe might be merely one of many universes, thus dramatically improving the odds for life in ours.
		By using imaginary time, Hawking is able to make it appear that the universe never had a beginning.
	www.y-zine.com /options3.htm (416 words)

	FTL and imaginary mass?
		Nemesis from Asimov, where he explains that there are two dual universes, one with "real" mass and the other with "imaginary" mass (you know as in the complex numbers).
		In fact both universes coexist in the same space, but one cannot be sensed from the other.
		They also state that objects moving faster than light will have imaginary mass and that this mass will increase as they slow down toward lightspeed and become infinite at lightspeed.
	www.orionsarm.com /intro/ftl-i.html (519 words)

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		Many difficulties weaken the theory : the age of the universe, the abnormal redshifts, the abnormal iron concentrations of the first galaxies, many very old planetary systems observed recently and well of other problems that all know...
		An american astrophysicist, of foreign origin as it should be: " We live in a parallel universe with another universe with which we are connected by a hole of worm".
		Very satisfied with their respective performance, the participants of the congress set out again in their universities, in the search of increasingly complicated universes, far...
	www.chez.com /optimisme/chapterfifteen.htm (982 words)

	Baha'i Teachings: Science, Reason and Revelation
		That the world is in the throes of a universal epistemological revolution, or perhaps counter-revolution, was made abundantly evident by the title of the Nobel Foundation 1990 conference, “The End of Science?”; the only program outside Sweden and Norway sanctioned by the Foundation.
		In recent years Stephen Hawking and Hugh Everett’s theories about multiple universes have been used by some—such as evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins—to shore up the ‘cosmic coincidence’ approach to cosmology and life on this planet (Gribbin 226, 233-4) in an attempt to rescue it from the homocentric or theistic implications of the anthropic principle.
		On the other hand, it is still somewhat ironic for these scientists (who insist on evidence and proof) in that these hypothesized other universes are purely speculative and absolutely undetectable—and thus unverifiable—whether reference is to “baby universes”, “multiple imaginary universes”, “bubble universes”, or “parallel universes”.
	www.planetbahai.org /cgi-bin/articles.pl?article=259 (2213 words)

	The fatal mistake of Modernism
		One might assign the year 1100 to be the start of the era of reason in Europe, because by then the intellectual culture of Anselm's monastery had been transplanted to Paris and been established in an institution that was quickly gaining international prestige and historical traction.
		Contrary to a widespread notion that the seventeenth century was "The Age of Reason," a case can be made that the heyday of reason was the twelfth and thirteenth century.
		In contrast, the memorable rationalists of the seventeenth century were much fewer in number, and their famous works were blemished with logical fallacies and tainted by inflated presumptions and eccentric self-absorption.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/hutchison/060722 (4573 words)

	Body
		If an imaginary tetrahedron is circumscribed inside a spinning celestial body with one point attached at a pole, then the other three points of the tetrahedron will touch the surface at 19.5 (19.47) degrees latitude.
		If we imagine that there were a near infinite number of parallel universes in which 107 space shuttles were being randomly launched, then we would find that in the majority of these universes the actual number of "hits" would cluster around the expected number of "hits".
		So, in 68% of the imaginary universes the average number of actual "hits" recorded will be between 20 and 12.6 for every 107 space shuttle launches.
	www.bob-wonderland.supanet.com /conspiracy_6.htm (5668 words)

	Cantares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That this experience constitutes a profound dimension of spirituality is shown by the subsequent history of the symbolism of ascension.
		The universal presence of the flight scenario, says Eliade a little later in this same work, "proves that the roots of freedom are to be sought in the depths of the psyche, and not in the conditions brought about by certain historical moments; in other words...
		The creation, repeated to infinity, of [the] countless imaginary universes in which space is transcended and weight is abolished, speaks volumes upon the true nature of the human being.
	www.umassd.edu /SpecialPrograms/Caboverde/cantares.html (275 words)

	Negin TAHVILDARY- abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The study illustrates how, in spite of different cultural and religious backgrounds, one can trace striking similarities between the imaginary universes of the three poets, an affinity that might be termed an ‘alchemical fraternity’ in favour of poetry.
		By means of a fusion of ego with poetic cosmogony and a setting aside of the traditional categories of logic and perception, each poet builds his imaginary universe.
		It is here, like a conjunction point, that these three imaginary universes meet.
	www.cf.ac.uk /euros/newreadings/volume7/tahvildaryabs.html (224 words)

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