Category: Cosmology

“The idea of nothing as the absence of anything not logically necessary is much more precise and well-defined than Krauss’s imprecise ideas of `nothing,’ such as ‘the absence of space and time itself’.” more

But remember, it’s only a theory. more

“It would be a terrible mistake to think that those are the only two ways things could go.” more

It’s interesting that Vilenkin would be bearing this news. A trip through the files turned up: “Welcome to the Multiverse: in Alexander Vilenkin and Max … more

“Most of them are in tight orbits around their host star, precisely where the modellers say they shouldn’t be.” more

“The discovery of supersymmetric partners … perhaps at the Large Hadron Collider … would be strong evidence in favour of M-theory. more

So says Peter Woit in “This Week’s Hype” at Not Even Wrong. more

“We are living in an accidental universe. We are living in a universe uncalculable by science.” Are we? more

What bothers some of us, who remember Apollo 11, is that in those days NASA didn’t need to bother providing this kind of entertainment. more

“This time, if nothing materialises, physicists will really start giving up. ” more

What one gets from pop science media is not evaluation of ideas in danger, like the Higgs boson and string theory, but evangelism for them. more