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Science magazine writer Charles Seife has written a new book, Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe. According to Publishers Weekly, Charles claims, "Scientists...now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome." A brave statement! Charles is happy to answer your questions about ongoing research that is busily revealing the basic nature of life, the universe, and everything in a serious (as opposed to humorous) sense, so ask away. One question per post, please. We'll post the answers as soon as we get them beck.
My mind blanks as the earth reforms. I focus on the the individual particles, it must be perfect, an action which would have taken me days and completely exausted me before, now takes only a few seconds. When the structure is completed I pick her up and levitate with her in my arms one last time. I set her down in the coffin, thinking about what could have been if I came to her help a few minutes earlier. I step outside the room and order the earth to seal it. Nobody shall ever know what lies beyond this barrier, I tell it. It obeys, knowing my pain.
I form a dagger of pure crystal out of nothing. I think about what powers will be lost to humanity, how many will die because I will not be there to help them, but it is meaningless to me. She was everything to me and I lost her to my greed. It is better this way, I tell myself.
I walk outside and see the sun setting behind the hills. It asks me if I need anything, and I tell it I need guardians. Moments later, the link is broken and out of the fire come four giant fire elementals. They request instruction. I tell them to destroy this forest and then return here, forever guarding this building, never to yield to any intruders. They turn and go.
I force my body fully into this plane. Feelings of vulnerability overwhelm me, I become mortal again. I walk back into the building and the earth understands, opening the passage for me. I sit next to her, touching her cold hand. I am sorry, I think, the thought echoing through the fabric of reality, a sign of how powerful I have become. I drive the dagger into my heart feeling not pain, but relief. I am sorry, I think again, and this time I feel she is responding. Perhaps we will be together in whatever is to come, I silently say to myself. I smile as I close my eyes and submit to the darkness.
But the powers that be will not let me rest. I have been assigned the role of the deathbringer of a strange world I have never seen before, with the promise that I will be reunited with my love at the end of time. There is nothing but death for those whom I set my gaze upon, and nobody understands why I do it. I am hated and feared by them, but I do not care.
I have become a Troll.
fifth? post
"Science" consised of homosexual men making up crackpot stories about how certain things began!
Repeal the DMCA!
If we know so much, why is it that we can not even solve energy problem for human needs? Much talked about Nuclear Fusion to hydrogen based economy is no where to be found. Can you tell us when energy supply problem will be solved?
Since this topic is more boring than a fly's phallus, I'm wondering whether last night's Futurama was an aberration, or has the show become a worthless festering pile of donkey shit?
I haven't seen it in a few years, because I've been busy banging women instead of being holed up in front of my All-In-Wonder card on my 486 Linux Box, so forgive me for not being up on all the latest television. But since I'm working off a herpes flare-up right now, I decided to take a night off from aardvarking it up with Swedish flight attendants and watch some t.v., only to find that Futurama is about as lame as a three-legged dog with bunions.
Since when do Hermes and Fry have kids? And didn't South Park already do two shows on the issue of "parents are responsible for what their kids watch on t.v." About the only redeeming quality of the show is that they got rid of Amy, so you perverts who sit around fantasizing about dating a fucking cartoon character can finally realize how pathetic your lives are.
But still, man, that show sucks volleyballs. No wonder Fox is dumping it. Good riddance.
Does anyone wants to read a book "Sum of Technologies" by Stanislaw Lem? It was written in 1967 and still remains one of the best weighted science prognosis books in existance. It's even worth to learn Polish (or Ukrainian or Russian) language and to read this book in a "close to original" version.
what will everyone be eating when it happens?