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The King lives!

By Marcus Chown

19 May 2001

ELVIS is still alive, say a pair of respected cosmologists. Not only that but
Marilyn Monroe came up with the theory of relativity, the dinosaurs survived and
went on to invent the automobile and Al Gore, not George Bush, is the US
President. “In fact, as long as a history is consistent with the laws of
physics, it will not only happen but happen an infinite number of times,” says
Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

It seems far-fetched but Vilenkin and Jaume Garriga of the Independent
University of Barcelona say it’s just a logical consequence of
“¾±²Ô´Ú±ô²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô”—t³ó±ð&³ó±ð±ô±ô¾±±è;

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