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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 5 July 1997

From Rafe Culpin

London

There have been various technological uses suggested for black holes, for
instance for energy production, transport or weapons. If any of these can be
made to work and it is possible to produce black holes artificially, then the
greatest number of child universes will be generated by those universes which
contain technological civilisations.

Such civilisations might even deliberately design their equipment to produce
large numbers of child universes, as an altruistic act to increase the number of
life-bearing universes.

Issue no. 2089 published 5 July 1997

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