[extropy-chat] miscellanea

[Hal Finney]

> > >http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503117
>  
> > That is actually a damn good theory. 
>
> Hi Robin,
> According to Sean Carroll -  see his blog, on
> March 22, http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/  -
> there are several problems. I understood about
> 30% of the paper, and about 70% of what Sean
> is saying, though :-)

>From that blog's comments I also found
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503099 which seems even more impressive.
It uses the same concept, that we are embedded in a super bubble that
is expanding, has no parameters(!) and supposedly "passes cosmological
tests with flying colors", including the age of the universe and the
luminosity-distance relation that is conventionally interpreted as
pointing to dark energy.

Hal