Finally finished "On the Origin of Time", and that is the most beautiful, and thorough, Acknowledgements sections I have ever read, and I've read a few.
#ontheoriginoftime #thomashertog #quantumcosmology #holographicQFT #cosmology #howtheworldbegan #astrophysics #wildride
And then came 2023…
https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-physics-experiment-indicates-no-objective-reality
Basic prerequisites for science posts in 2024 will include having read #OnTheOriginOfTime 😅
I've a basic grasp of spacetime, Hawking's no boundary hypothesis, the Standard Model including the Higgs field, how fracturing symmetry after the big bang can give rise to different fundamental fields, particles and physical laws and the subtle but to me compelling argument against #AnthropicCosmology that lead #StephenHawking to develop his final theory which this book is closing on on.
All because of #ThomasHertog's amazingly well written #OnTheOriginOfTime. 👏
@_thegeoff probably not, but 🤷♂️
The early universe was even more QM (uncertainty principle etc) than now. Hawking hypothesised that everything, including time and space were 'fuzzy' due to quantum effects very early on, to such an extent that time becomes imaginary the further you go back, hence the No Boundary Hypothesis (no beginning of t=0).
Suggested read: #OnTheOriginOfTime by #ThomasHertog. It's very good IMO.
Still really enjoying #OnTheOriginOfTime by #ThomasHertog on #StephenHawking's last theory.
He explains so much so clearly that things I've not understood for decades are making sense and I'm actually able to think about them. As well as marvel about the underlying nature and origins of our universe, using what we believe we understand about it, and wondering about what we don't.
All given life by explaining the evolution of theory and the people making advances in #cosmology & #physics
I've just read the first part of the preface to #OnTheOriginOfTime by #ThomasHertog and boy am I impressed and my appetite whetted!
I didn't expect to be so moved by what at first sight seems to be a purely factual account of his first meeting with #StephenHawking - every physicist's hero - well mine anyway.
This is a book about Hawking's final theory by his long time collaborator on that theory.
It seems the #multiverse is doomed...or is it?
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