[ExI] End of time?
spike
spike66 at att.net
Wed Sep 29 16:22:32 UTC 2010
> ...On Behalf Of Keith Henson
> Subject: [ExI] End of time?
>
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1009/1009.4698v1.pdf
>
> I am not sure there is anyone here with enough math skills to
> evaluate this one, but if there are, I would like to hear
> what you think about it. Keith
Keith, I looked it over and can say the whole notion is safely outside my
know-cone. Saul Perlmutter came to Lockheed and gave a pitch in which he
mentioned the idea as one of the competing de Sitter vacuum models, but
didn't offer any details. That's been about 8 years ago.
Alan Guth had an accelerating inflation idea that was going around about 6
yrs ago called the Big Rip that might be related to this. The notion didn't
make much of a splash in the cosmology community, and I never heard of it
again.
I was scared senseless that the Big Rip is 5 million years from now. But
when they clarified it is 5 billion years hence, I calmed a bit.
spike
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