29 month ago
jkottke : Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing a paper that argues that the universe "began in just about every way imaginable" simultaneously and then most of the possibilites withered away with the rest blending to make the current universe - Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing a paper that argues that the universe "began in just about every way imaginable" simultaneously and then most of the possibilites withered away with the rest blending together to make the current universe.
plasticbag : Stephen Hawking is about to argue that we have to think of cosmology backwards - I love this - the argument is that rather than look for initial physical laws and working out how we manifested from them (deterministic universe), we instead have to view our universe as just one expression of physical laws and possibilities and push bac
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31 month ago
jkottke : Maybe the universe is a trillion years old and has experienced several big bangs and big collapses over the years - Maybe the universe is a trillion years old and has experienced several big bangs and big collapses over the years. "People have inferred that time began then, but there really wasn't any reason for that inference. What we are proposing is very radical. It
plasticbag : A new theory - and remember this is not generally accepted - says that our Big Bang may have been just the latest of many... - It's a pretty fascinating theory, although I've not got a sense of how it engages with concepts like space-time and how time exists before the Big Bang. I need more!
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