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Alexander Chislenko. Personal communication. December 1996.

Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene.

In a sense, these sorters are all Charles Darwin's pickers and choosers - his natural selectors. Yet they add to Darwin's insights some harsh realities. Not all selectors are elements of the exterior environment. The inner-judges, in particular, are inside our biology. Why? Because individuals are parts of a larger survival machine. And just as individuals compete, so do the groups of which we are a part. Groups compete not only with their might, but with their smarts. Each of us is a hypothesis in a larger mind. And unfortunately, not all hypotheses work out. Hence some of us are disabled by what previous centuries called a broken heart.

Fernand Braudel. The Structures of Everyday Life

The friends the Montgolfiers sent skyward--Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent--drifted a full 5.5 miles on their maiden voyage through the air.

Fred Howard. Wilbur and Orville

Computer modelers using simulations of complex adaptive systems have come to the same conclusion as that presented here. The computer modelers' terms for the properties which emerge from their simulations are "polarization" (squabbling) and "clustering" (rallying around common threads). See Robert Axelrod. "The Complexity of Cooperation

C. P. Collier, E. W. Wong, M. Belohradsky, F. M. Raymo, J. F. Stoddart, P. J. Kuekes,R. S. Williams, and J. R. Heath. "Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates." Science, 16 July 1999

Technically this particle froth is known as "vacuum energy density". See

An active galactic nucleus, as the black-hole-powered energy generator at the heart of a galaxy is known, pours out the power of 10.000.000.000.000 suns

Julian Krolik. Active Galactic Nuclei

Louisiana State University. "Physicist Finds Out Why 'We Are Stardust...'" Posted June 25, 1999.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990625080416.htm, downloaded August 1999.

David Arnett and Grant Bazan. "Nucleosynthesis in Stars

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