Minuscule through the part is today that such acts of
observer-participancy play in the scheme of things, there are billions
of years to come. There are billions upon billions of living places
yet to be inhabited. The coming explosion of life opens the door to an
all-encompassing role for observer-participancy: to build, in time to
come, no minor part of what we call its past - our past, present and
future - but this whole vast world.
-- J.A. Wheeler, World as system self-synthesized by quantum networking



        Deep Time: ...Now they have left the Milky Way... have extended their
physiological dependence upon electronic memory banks which store the
atomic and molecular patterns within their bodies, transmit them outward at
the speed of light, and later re-assemble them.
        Deep time: ...Now, too, they have finally shed their organic forms and
are composed of radiating electromagnetic fields, the primary energy
sub-stratum of the universe, complex networks of multiple dimensions, alive
with the constant tremor of the sentient messages they carry, bearing the
life-ways of the race.
        To power these fields, they have harnessed entire galaxies riding the
wave-fronts of the stellar explosions out toward the terminal helixes of
the universe.
        Deep Time: ...They are beginning to dictate the form and dimensions of
the universe... The universe is now almost filled by the great vibrating mantle
of ideation, a vast shimmering harp which has completely translated itself
into pure wave form, independent of any generating source.
        As the universe pulses slowly, its own energy vortices flexing and
dilating, so the force-fields of the ideation mantle flex and dilate in
sympathy, growing like an embryo within the womb of the cosmos, a child
which will soon fill and consume its parent.
J.G. Ballard, The Waiting Grounds' (1959):



I'm not an atheist! I'm just a pastor in the First Church of Tipler,
Astrophysicist (Reformed, open universe) ...
Charles Stross

> I don't know
> what scares people the most an end to the universe or an Omega Point.
"Jonathan Grimes" <JonathanGrimes@classic.msn.com> writes:


Stephen Hawking postulates 
Black Holes evaporate 
I can't wait ! 
-- Dr. John Hynes, 
jhynes@ibm.net 



  See you at the Omega Point!


	Onward and forever on
       Destination Eschaton
       Nowhere to hide
       Nowhere to run
       From Alpha into Omega
       -- The Shaman, Destination Eschaton 


Cogito, ergo Omega est.
Richard Lubbock

I'm bored, I might as well save the Universe.
Mike Cowar



As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I
propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible
universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so.
\author{Freeman Dyson}
\attribute{{\it Infinite In All Directions}}

De profundis -- ad astra -- in aeternum.


"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as
it is and why it exists as all."
Stephen Hawking


       The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the
       universe, as inevitable as your own last breath.  And yet,
       there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

       Escape will make me God.
       <Defend THIS! (Terminal 2)> 
Durendal, Marathon

 "A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
Disraeli
The Universe should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Me.


 Mark Dowdey 
mdowdey@mcimail.com, 0005


 Brand new Universe
  Order from Chaos:
 Humanity triumphs!


Tipler's God at the end of the universe is no scowling Yahweh or thunderbolt-slinging Jupiter, or
even kindly, gentle Gaea. His Holy Spirit is the universal wave function of quantum mechanics,
and his God is the most super of all the supercomputers, an information-processing construct that
literally encompasses the whole universe. 
Rick Cook 

I love thee, O Eternity.
Nietzsche

            "I saw eternity the other night,like a great ring of pure and endless light."