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...proposed site is directly across the street from City Hall, where the Cambridge post office and a branch of the YMCA currently reside...
...discovery of a final theory is not going to help us cure cancer or understand consciousness, however. We probably already know all the fundamental physics we need for these tasks. The branch of science in which a final theory is likely to have its greatest impact is cosmology. We have pretty good confidence in the ability of the standard model to trace the present expansion of the universe back to about a billionth of a second after its start...
...Star Trek: Deep Space Nine use wormholes the way New Yorkers use subways). But according to an idea proposed in the 1980s by Stephen Hawking, it could also lead out of our cosmos altogether, creating a "baby universe" that would then expand and grow, forming its own self-contained branch of space-time...
...this issue) devised by Oxford physicist David Deutsch might allow such history-changing visits. In this picture, there are many interlacing world histories, so that if you went back in time and killed your grandmother when she was a young girl, this would simply cause space-time to branch off into a new parallel universe that doesn't interfere with the familiar...
However, breaking up the company might not solve the problem if one branch retained the operating system monopoly. Microsoft has already expressed interest in incorporating additional functionality, such as speech recognition, into its operating system, and other companies would still be at risk. Licensing Windows to multiple independent providers, while encouraging creative additions to the operating system by many companies, raises the danger of a "version fork" and the creation of mutually incompatible operating systems. Despite these risks, a strong structural remedy seems more appropriate to the offense and more likely to restrain anticompetitive action by Microsoft in the future...