Year: 2017
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Modern cosmology and the theory of eternal recurrence, by Paul Steinhardt
“If you go back to the different theories of cosmic evolution in the early 1990s, the data we’ve gathered in the last decade has eliminated all of them save one, a model that you might think of today as the consensus model. This model involves a combination of the Big Bang model as developed in…
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Cosmological Conjecture as Thought Experiment
Cosmophilosophical conjectures can function as thought experiments intended — not to scientifically demonstrate this of that — but to allow us to consider and feel our reality differently, at least for a few seconds, at least intuitively. Consider the following example: What if the very small (smaller than particles) and the very big (bigger than…
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Physicists: A Dispute About What Science Is
“Physicists Can’t Agree on What Science Even Means Anymore”
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An Epistemic Controversy about Cosmic Inflation
A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors.
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