Session #2: Models of the Universe
Introductions.
• Quick Review of Session #1.
• Quick Review of our Purpose.
• Your Questions and Challenges.
Resource Page: Challenges of the big bang theory: https://81018.com/2016/10/13/flood/
• Letters to Carlo Rovelli, Richard Muller, and others listed and linked.
A reflection about this process (once a homepage)
• “Throw out infinity” says Max Tegmark of MIT
• “Throw out space and time,” says Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton
Both Max and Nima are struggling. Over the next few weeks we will:
• Build on and off ramps to Infinity (1) Notation 1 (2) Fabric of the Universe
• Redefine light and space and time
• Nobel Prize: Nernst (Chemistry, 1920), Einstein (Physics, 1921), Planck (Physics, 1918), Millikan (Physics, 1923) Laue (Physics, 1914) This group could have done the base-2 chart over dinner on 11 November 1931 in Berlin. We would be a very different world.