If there is any testable variation then the best estimate we have for
   it should make that test regime easier; yes?
   Now what I find most significant about these three papers is the
   specifically cryptographic approach. Your mileage may vary.
   Maybe Jim, or fellow cypherpunk revolutionists can drill down with '
   Professor Google "  and find some earlier examples using crypto to
   probe quantum-physics &/or cosmology.
   Its would be a huge boost for cryptoanarchy were the TOE ( or GUT -
   grand unified theory ) be discovered to be based on what looks more and
   more ( Sear " Wheeler, H. Pagels, S. Lloyd " ) like a
   public-key-encryption universe.  No string theory below us - above us
   only ...anything!
   If any Indymedia - smelling-cat style guerrilla journo's are lurking,
   I'd also appreciate a work up on the good professor Rhodes. I would do
   it myself but I'm no spring chicken any more and have had four
   operations since I was last here around 2003.
   Yrs in anarchist revolution
   Grumpy old man
   Matt