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Re: then there's Guth . . .

D. Spires — 5/11/2002 3:28:21 PM (archived)

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Guth's Grand Guess

Inflationary universes need not be natural, argues Alan Guth (plotting the curving boundaries of hypothetical artificial universes against a space-time axis). In his view, an advanced race could harness the engines of inflation and create a whole cosmos from scratch. Indeed, our universe could be such a creation.
Image Credit: Larry Fink -- Discover.

'Most people really want to know where we came from. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young'

(Source: Discover, April 2002)

Dan

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The whole thread (16 posts)

• Physics News Update -- Another Universe . . . - D. Spires - 5/11/2002 2:47:34 PM
  • Boggles the mind. - Bowser - 5/11/2002 3:09:46 PM
    • Re: then there's Guth . . . - D. Spires - 5/11/2002 3:28:21 PM
      • Re: then there's Guth . . . - SM - 5/13/2002 8:02:37 AM
        • Re: Why . . . ? - D. Spires - 5/13/2002 8:54:15 AM
          • Re: Good point. - SM - 5/14/2002 10:43:27 AM
      • do you like our experiment?. (n/t) - progenitors - 5/12/2002 1:45:20 PM
      • Re: then there's Guth . . . - Bowser - 5/11/2002 4:37:45 PM
        • Yeah, I'm kinda disappointed in the Universe, too - Matt Burley - 5/12/2002 7:41:59 PM
          • Re: And -- what makes you think they're finished . . . ? (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 5/13/2002 2:23:11 PM
            • Perhaps...they never will be finished - Matt Burley - 5/13/2002 4:08:49 PM
          • Precisely. n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 5/12/2002 5:30:09 PM
          • Re: Yeah, I'm kinda disappointed in the Universe, too - Delbert - 5/12/2002 8:51:34 AM
        • Deleting Bowser - Progenitors - 5/12/2002 1:47:04 PM
        • Dang... - Tom Brosz - 5/12/2002 1:03:51 PM
        • Re: then there's the Great Wall...... - Raoul Lannoy - 5/12/2002 8:20:10 AM