Light Eye
01-19-2007, 12:21 PM
Dear Friends,
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/lynds1.shtml
Be Well, Be Love.
David
The Universe As Magic Roundabout
By Rusty Rockets
Ever feel like you've been there, done that, and that the life you're living
seems strangely familiar? Maybe a psychic has told you that you were once a
great king or queen, or, at the very least, their eunuch. Perhaps a neurologist
has told you that the dÃÂà ƒÂƒÃ‚‚ƒÃƒÂ‚àƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚©jÃà ‚ƒÃ‚ƒÃ ƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚ ÂÂÂ* vu that you're experiencing is just a trick of the
mind. But while these explanations may appeal to either the spiritually or
scientifically inclined, physicist Peter Lynds argues that there may be a much
grander account that explains the repetitiveness of life: a cyclic universe. In
this, the first part of two articles, we look at what Lynds considers to be both
vital and overlooked cosmological questions regarding the origin and mechanics
of a cyclic universe.
Of course, referring to past lives and dÃÂà ƒÂƒÃ‚‚ƒÃƒÂ‚àƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚©jÃà ‚ƒÃ‚ƒÃ ƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚ ÂÂÂ* vu is being a tad flippant in
regard to Lynds' new paper on a cyclic universe, "On A Finite Universe With No
Beginning Or End," as these areas, he explains, are really the philosophical
fallout - determinism, free will, and life after death - of his new theory. In a
nutshell, the model of the universe that Lynds is proposing, similar to others
before him, is that the universe is in fact closed and subject to an infinite
cycle of big bangs and big crunches. However, the difference between Lynds'
theory and those that have gone before it is that in Lynds' model the big bang
is no more the beginning of the universe than the big crunch is its end. Lynds
explains, as suggested by paper's title, that while the universe is finite,
there is no arrow of time; there is no past or present, and that in neither a
big crunch nor big bang is a singularity ever reached.
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http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/lynds1.shtml
Be Well, Be Love.
David
The Universe As Magic Roundabout
By Rusty Rockets
Ever feel like you've been there, done that, and that the life you're living
seems strangely familiar? Maybe a psychic has told you that you were once a
great king or queen, or, at the very least, their eunuch. Perhaps a neurologist
has told you that the dÃÂà ƒÂƒÃ‚‚ƒÃƒÂ‚àƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚©jÃà ‚ƒÃ‚ƒÃ ƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚ ÂÂÂ* vu that you're experiencing is just a trick of the
mind. But while these explanations may appeal to either the spiritually or
scientifically inclined, physicist Peter Lynds argues that there may be a much
grander account that explains the repetitiveness of life: a cyclic universe. In
this, the first part of two articles, we look at what Lynds considers to be both
vital and overlooked cosmological questions regarding the origin and mechanics
of a cyclic universe.
Of course, referring to past lives and dÃÂà ƒÂƒÃ‚‚ƒÃƒÂ‚àƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚©jÃà ‚ƒÃ‚ƒÃ ƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚ ÂÂÂ* vu is being a tad flippant in
regard to Lynds' new paper on a cyclic universe, "On A Finite Universe With No
Beginning Or End," as these areas, he explains, are really the philosophical
fallout - determinism, free will, and life after death - of his new theory. In a
nutshell, the model of the universe that Lynds is proposing, similar to others
before him, is that the universe is in fact closed and subject to an infinite
cycle of big bangs and big crunches. However, the difference between Lynds'
theory and those that have gone before it is that in Lynds' model the big bang
is no more the beginning of the universe than the big crunch is its end. Lynds
explains, as suggested by paper's title, that while the universe is finite,
there is no arrow of time; there is no past or present, and that in neither a
big crunch nor big bang is a singularity ever reached.
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Alt i ÃÂà ƒÂ‚ƒÃƒÂ‚à ƒÂ‚©n. FÃÂà ƒÂƒÃ‚‚ƒÃƒÂ‚àƒÃ‚ƒÃ‚‚Â¥ Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og notisblokk.
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