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I could barely begin to get traction on Smolin's "fecund universes"
conception but I'm lost with white vs black holes and while my
intuition wants to let in "time" (and causality?) as emergent
properties, I'm clearly lacking a great deal.... even with
"George's" clever help.<br>
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Wild. Thank you! Good grief.
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<div>And mine too.<br>
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style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Suppose the
Big Bang the result of a unifying
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“the result of” gives wiggle room, but I
don’t think there will be an unpack that
draws any association between these two
phenomena. ><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maybe not one but many? <span
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my head!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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