Does it make sense to talk about free will in a universe that appears deterministic?
It is a closed social network in a universe designed to be open.
Yet, in a universe of bad options on Syria, peace talks sponsored by America and Russia merit the international community's full backing.
In a universe where celebrity is guzzled on television, online and with tweets, there is little difference between the Kardashians and the Mannings.
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Often, he is looking at something that happened 10 billion years ago -- in a universe that scientists believe to be 13 billion years old.
Meaning Batman will apparently make his next movie appearance alongside Superman, before then moving over to his own series that will exist in a universe with the other superheroes.
Does this mean that high yield bonds are over-valued? (likely), that Treasury bonds are over-valued, since high yield bonds are priced as a spread above Treasuries? (very likely), and that high quality stocks in a universe of mostly overvalued liquid assets are relatively cheap? (likely).
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In this model, the big bang is the result of a collision of two branes in a cyclic universe.
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"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" features a down-on-his-luck time machine repairman, living in Minor Universe 31.
In a sane universe, people would economize on land by building more and more densely.
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Are its designers and managers living in a parallel universe, or can they pull it off?
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Without Bridey to hope for, he felt that he was living in a timeless universe.
Max Tegmark likes to point out that his grandmother lived in a different universe.
Predictably, from his perch in a parallel universe, President Obama has been recalcitrant.
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In a parallel universe, MeeGo became the standard operating system for netbooks, which became the dominant form of mobile computing.
Others will prefer to stand in awe of a universe that they suspect began as a quantum fluctuation in pre-existing nothingness.
Even patient navigation, Freeman says, falls prey to our fragmented system -- one filled with specialists that each operate in a separate universe.
As a side note, I noticed that on BoingBoing, the comments section inevitably led to the speculation that we ourselves are living in a simulated universe.
Interesting also that in - often, when the Republican and Democratic debates are closer together in time, many people say, gosh, it's almost like we're living in a parallel universe here.
In a parallel universe our market is the mainstream, writers are celebrities, dinner conversations never include references to The Jersey Shore or the Dow, and the whole world is again an enchanting place of discovery, invention and intellectual evolution.
Physicist (and revolutionary) Max Tegmark likes to say that his grandmother grew up in a different universe, because since the time when she was a child, humans have discovered that the cosmos extends much farther, and obeys vastly different rules, than previously believed.
Huxley's ability to knock out Hollywood scripts for Greer Garson while still thinking seriously about man's place in the universe (a universe which had been unravelling ever since his grandfather and Darwin had entered the public fray 80 years earlier) has not, by and large, recommended him to posterity.
Since its founding in 1986, Mike Richardson and crew have sought to shine a light on the expanded universe in a big way.
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Such models can reproduce all the characteristics of a standard big bang universe in a natural way, without the extra premise of inflation and its special initial conditions.
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Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
The basic yarn is that of the human hand working on an almost supernaturally tiny scale, performing miraculous feats of dexterity that result in what, at its best, seems like a universe in miniature.
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This year, however, saw a decline in the percentage of tweens and tens in the social networking universe, with a rise in the 18 to 24 year old segment, 25 to 34 year olds, 35-44 and 45-55 age brackets, New Jersey-based Edison Research found in their national random sample of 2, 020 telephone interviews conducted in February 2011.
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In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
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