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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Multiverse and Inflation
Hawking and Linde were a plucky minority who really tried to understand why it would start. The specific mechanism that drives inflation in the early universe leaves its observation on traces. So if we want to predict the details, the fine details of those flossiles, so to speak, we better understand how it starts. Stephen taught to get a proper scientific, falsifiable hypothesis out of the multiverse would require radical quantum thinking.
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