GENETIC MARKERS
Current biotechnology research is working on the
tracing of genetic markers, certain genes which show statistical coincidence
with higher rates of certain diseases. While the connection between these
genes and a higher incidence of disease is based on statistical circumstance,
and isn't generally a solid indication of any real predisposition, the temptation
to use such statistical data for cost-cutting and predictive business strategy
is likely to be great. Without legislation to prevent abuse of this information,
without what would amount to the most sweeping privacy protections yet explicitly
passed into law, an industry of discrimination is the likely result of this
research.
LIMITLESS UNIVERSE
The Big Bang theory posits that a single cataclismic explosion initiated
our universe, and that this same event gave rise to the expansion and differentiation
which describe the physics of nature as we know it. The Multiverse variation
of this theory proposes the possibility that the Big Bang was one in a long
series of such beginnings, which mark the eruption of an entirely new universe
out from an older one.
It is proposed that the physics of each bubble universe eventually produces a density or anomaly at some point along its surface, causing a burst of matter and energy sufficient to form an entirely new universe with its own elemental properties. The process would be self-perpetuating, each universe eventually producing one or more others, each Big Bang a door opening onto a previously non-existent plane of existence.
