Baby universes!!

[dianeduane]

Too cool.

Comments

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea - now I wonder if they could 'seed' some commands for any life in the baby universe, something along the lines of 'go forth and multiply'

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Fascinating... now if they could just enlarge the connection and stabilise it a bit so we could have a universe-in-a-box...

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

Of course, the logical extrapolation of this is that just such an experiment in another continuum could have created OUR universe. In which case, there is a God, but he's already written up his dissertation and shut down the project.

...does that thought make anyone else feel a bit wobbly? O_O

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

All very well making baby universes, and they are very pretty when they're small, I suppose, but will they be able to afford to feed them when they grow up? And what about accommodation and lighting? Any rescue organization can tell you that they have more universes than they know what to do with, most of them badly neglected or even abandoned by their owners. And as for dumping them down black holes, the interdimensional sewers must be full of them by now!

My aunt was bitten by a universe once...

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

My husband, reading this over my shoulder, said, "Oooh, baby universes. That's a bad idea. We all know what happens with the M'Kronn Crystal is shattered!" :)

[dduane.livejournal.com]

I sure do: Chris Claremont comes up behind you with a baseball bat, and you get thwacked. "No no no no no no no no no!"

[artela.livejournal.com]

hmmm... this gives me the same wibbly feeling as those Japanese scientists who are planning to drill down really really deep to try and find the mantle... are they *all* intent on trying to find ways to really screw the planet up?

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Haven't they ever seen anything on the Sci-Fi channel? Our universe will be distorted and eventually sucked into the baby universe, which will explode! It'll all end in tears, I know it...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

See david Brin's "Earth: A Novel". Although I don't think he expected to be around when someone actually tried it...

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, this won't ignite the atmosphere, and we have really effective sunglasses.

Needless to say, I'm fascinated - and I half expect someone to suggest using 'em as batteries, with the marketing ploy, "A universe of opportunity!"

Or sell baby universe plush toys.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Paging Dairine Callahan...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Obsf: Men in Black, the McGuffin in the first film.

[syberghost.livejournal.com]

Not to mention John Ringo (http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743498801.htm?blurb).

I'm just glad these guys aren't at UCF; Ringo's blast radius comes uncomfortably close to where I'm sitting at the moment...

[(Anonymous)]

The article doesn't have a picture of the scientists; are there any glass spiders involved?

[wolfette]

I think I just stepped into a SF world :-)

[madfilkentist]

<maniacal>Now I know what it feels like to be God!!!</maniacal>

[billfl.livejournal.com]

Isn't this just the sort of thing that Wesley Crusher used to get in trouble for?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(snort) Don't I wish.

(mutter) Don't I get a royalty from being right fifteen years early?

(Apparently not. But I have mail from the physicist in Princeton saying, re: creative physics, "We're working on that." I guess that counts for something.)

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

I am strongly reminded of Asimov's "The Last Question". For some strange reason!

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I've been convinced for a long time that that's what happened.

And I can just hear the admin guy in charge: "So you create this, uh, thing, at incredible expense, and then it vanishes completely? And the practical application of this would be what exactly?"

"Uh, well, it would be, like, totally cool, you know?"

"*mutter mutter* If your father wasn't funding this university..."

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Anybody in the lab who says 'Let there be light' when they do it should get a creme pie in the face. :)

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Egad. I can NOT believe I didn't think of that. (eyes his Asimov collection and realizes it's time to dive in again...)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

You cannot begin to comprehend how thoroughly awesome I find this. Awesome in the sense of awe.

... WOW.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

They should also pay you royalties if the new universe turns out to be filled with squirrels.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Why did I just have a visual of Jim Shooter when I read the phrase "new universe"?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be twenty years?

In absolute seriousness, Diane. Unless the Claremont/M'Krann factor kicks in here...?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I've learned to live with it, though. :-)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Has anyone told him yet?

I've not (recently) seen much on his blog on the topic...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I mentioned this to Steve Jackson, crediting you as finder, and he's quoted me in their Daily Illuminator feed without saying where I got it from. Many apologies!

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(laughter) Oh, dear Ghu, do you mean to tell me that I've missed my fifteen minutes of Internet Fame? (swoon)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, they do have a few thousand readers so it might have been useful for you.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Of course, you're right, it could have. Well, don't just sit there, run over and correct the entry! :)

(Seriously, don't worry about it. The not-getting-credited thing seems to happen fairly often, and it's not a huge issue.)