Apostate Physicist Paul Steinhardt Slams Inflation, Cosmic Theory He Helped Conceive. I love apostates, believers in or, better yet, conceivers of a theory who turn against it. They restore my faith in science, because they show that … Paul Steinhardt, wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/ Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University (Is there more impressive title in academia?), is an apostate. Inflation holds that immediately after the big bang, our universe underwent an almost unimaginably explosive, faster-than-light growth spurt. Lately, Steinhardt has been criticizing inflation and related ideas, notably multiverses, in unusually blunt terms. Paul Steinhardt: Scientific ideas should be simple, explanatory, predictive. The inflationary multiverse as currently understood appears to have none of those properties. blogs.scientificamerican/cross-check/2014/12/01/physicist-paul-steinhardt-slams-inflation-cosmic-theory-he-helped-conceive/
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:35:24 +0000
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