Linde, Andrei

In which we encounter Einstein, Rumi, God, the anthropic principle, Stephen Hawking, the Bible, Proust s hyper-realities. The Lobotomy Club, Sushi Never Sleeps, acto/5, brain surgery, Italian filmmaking, neorealism, stellar nucleosynthesis, the Big Bang, Paul Davies, Frank Tipler, Marcel Proust, H. P Lovecrafi, Andrei Linde, Sir Fred Hoyle, Rudy Rucker, Robert Jastrow, The Templeton Foundation, multiple universes, Paul Kammerer, synchronicity, and the shoreless sea of love. 

We can go even further and think about the wild implications for multiple universes—such as those presented in my Neoreality series— and what they say about our power in relation to God s. Stanford University physics professor Andrei Linde has speculated that it might be possible to create a new baby universe in a laboratory by violently... 

This work has been supported by Grant 938-COS191 from the John Templeton Foundation. I am grateful to Andrei Linde, Heinz Oberhummer, and Keith Olive for their helpful comments. 

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