Cosmology
Rob Sheldon: There isn’t a single model of inflation that works
Someone asks “Why Does Neil deGrasse Tyson Hate Philosophy?”
BICEP2: Why it matters if those gravitational waves were just dust
You have to know the Cosmos remake is in trouble when …
Cosmos host Tyson announces that philosophy can mess you up
If spacetime is a superfluid, light speed could vary
Or we could picture spacetime as a fluid …
No past infinity? But what about a minus past infinity?
Universe before Big Bang? Almost surely part of multiverse
Supersymmetry MUST BE true
I’m a Luke Barnes fan even though he would surely be critical of my ideas
Luke Barnes has been mentioned favorably twice at Uncommon Descent. I mentioned him in Nuclear Physicist asks, “Why is PZ Myers so dumb?” and slams Victor Stenger to boot. VJ Torley mentioned him favorably in Is fine tuning a fallacy. I “learned” intro cosmology from Barbara Ryden’s book, but I put “learned” in quotes because compared to Luke I know nothing, both about cosmology and about physics. I admit I had to crawl in order to understand one fraction of Dr. Barne’s paper The Fine Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life which was highly critical of Victor Stenger’s claims. Because of that paper, Luke became an instant celebrity in ID circles like Uncommon Descent. However, Luke recently offered some Read More ›