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...population of children playing hopscotch on the streets. The people we meet there will look and feel almost as real as the ones we encounter during our waking lives. If you've chosen a multiplayer universe, they may even be those same working stiffs, except that they will probably inhabit designer bodies that are a lot more interesting than their own. Our quests, our goals will be of our choosing and will almost certainly not involve corporate mission statements or our boss's action-agenda items. Here, our presence is of primary importance, and the universe truly does revolve around...
...thing. The College wants to offer different models of suites for different students. The athlete, or at least the sports fan, can sign up for a large room with ratty couches, TV projector with satellite dish and built-in keg tap. The starving artist can inhabit a cubicle containing nothing but its own six black walls, with black and white postcards of jazz musicians to be tacked up later. The John Harvard Scholar, meanwhile, can pick a similar little cube, only entirely white inside, equipped with not one but two desks, white noise generator and ample overhead lighting. The naturalist...
...West that he and Chan inhabit is more generic than authentic--come to think of it, a lot like the B-picture West in which the real John Wayne toiled through his early years. It's the kind of place where the subsidiary gunmen have no real motives--other than bad breeding--for their depredations, where barroom brawls blow up for no good reason and where plains, mountains and deserts are mixed without any particular geo-logic. This, of course, frees the director, Tom Dey, to play fast and loose with other kinds of logic. In his West, horses...
Almost everyone has some appreciation of how water projects have altered the course of civilization in ways we (perhaps foolishly) call benign. Dams and reservoirs permit unimaginable numbers of people to inhabit forbiddingly arid regions--as well as floodplains where cities would be washed away without upstream protection. Sacramento, Calif., for example, is dryer than North Africa, but the Sacramento River, on whose banks it sits, spread 30 miles (50 km) wide during the wettest California winter on record, in 1862, before dams and levees tamed the river. Dams produce more clean energy than nuclear reactors. Irrigation agriculture, largely dependent...
...that's true, then trillions of these baby universes exist, for that's how many black holes are believed to inhabit our cosmos. And those are just the naturally occurring ones; baby universes could in principle be manufactured as well. M.I.T. physicist Alan Guth realized in the late '80s that you might create a baby universe in the lab from just a few pounds' worth of matter by compressing the stuff to black-hole density...