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Inaction in Syria is Unconscionable

on April 14, 2018

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Pop Goes the Universe

on April 02, 2018

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Is Quantum Cosmology Serious Science?

on March 28, 2018

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AronRa Please Stop Talking Nonsense About Physics!

on March 25, 2018

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Andrei Linde and Inflation

on March 22, 2018

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Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems

on March 16, 2018

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No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal

on February 11, 2018

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Brexit Transition Worries

on February 08, 2018

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Set Theory

on January 20, 2018

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Consistent Histories and the PBR theorem

on January 04, 2018

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Theresa May is No Liberal but She's Still Better than Jeremy Corbyn

on December 12, 2017

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Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts

on October 26, 2017

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Creation Of Universes from Nothing

The above paper " Creation of Universes from Nothing " was published in 1982, which was subsequently followed up in 1984 by a paper titled " Quantum Creation of Universes ". I decided it would be a good idea to talk about these proposals, since last time I talked about the Hartle-Hawking model which was, as it turns out, inspired by this work. Alexander Vilenkin also explains in a non-technical way the essential idea in his book; Many World's in One (one of the best books I've ever read), it mostly covers cosmic inflationary theory but the 17th chapter covers how inflation may have started. In fact Vilenkin is one of the main proponents who helped develop inflation along with Steinhardt, Guth, Hawking, Starobinsky, Linde and others. Although I won't talk about it here, Vilenkin is also known for his work on topological defects at GUT scales and in developing cosmic strings, a topic which is also connected to inflation. In explain...

Set Theory

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William Lane Craig and the Hartle-Hawking No Boundary Proposal

Standard hot Big Bang cosmology represents the universe as beginning from a singular dense point, with no prior description or explanation of classical spacetime. Quantum cosmology is different in that it replaces the initial singularity with a description in accord with some law the "quantum mechanical wave function of the universe", different approaches to quantum cosmology differ in their appeal either to describe the origin of the material content of the universe e.g., Tyron 1973, Linde 1983a, Krauss 2012 or the origin of spacetime itself e.g., Vilenkin 1982, Linde 1983b, Hartle-Hawking 1983, Vilenkin 1984. These last few proposals by Vilenkin, Hartle-Hawking and others are solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation come under a category of proposals called "quantum gravity cosmologies" which make cosmic applications of an approach to quantum gravity called "closed dynamic triangulation" or CDT (also known as Euclidean quantum gravity). I've n...

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