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
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. π
#zomergasten #theomaassen
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"Het kan nog komen thomas"
@_thegeoff probably not, but π€·ββοΈ
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.
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