The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang — mentioned by tsimionescu

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:25:55 GMT

> I’d be surprised if either scientists were trying to publish articles like that — or if they were, that they could pass peer review. The article we're discussing itself even links to one such paper [0]. All of the others she mentions are also published works - Penrose's CCC [1], the ekpyrotic universe [2], Hawking's no-boundary state [3] etc. > On the other hand, if you are working on theories that can extend into the early universe, it’s not unimportant to try and figure out where the model breaks down. Maybe t=0 isn’t possible, but t=1s? 1ns? 1ps? How much can we feasibly describe? Sure…

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The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang — mentioned by tsimionescu