https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1507.00727/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081712urn:hackerpapers:mention:1507.00727:12081712Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:32:29 GMT<p>I followed all the links in this article and watched Alexander&#x27;s TEDx talk. The only &quot;link&quot; I could find is a rather loose one, mentioned at the end of the TEDx talk[1]. A cyclic (&#x27;big bounce&#x27;) cosmology is proposed as a solution to the fine-tuning problem, and this is likened to a jazz soloist trying different things over a repeated chord progression. The associated paper[2] doesn&#x27;t mention jazz or music. Perhaps a tighter crossover between physics and music lies in the use of Grassmann algebra to study both scattering amplitudes[3] and musical scales[4][5]. [1]…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1507.00727/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-th