Hi Saibal, Norman
I did not mean to intervene but so that my name is not
"called in vain" (:-) I would like to mention that, yes, I read
Tegmark's paper and enjoyed it much though I could not
help but notice that, though he promises, he never gets
to Level IV (my favorite) on this paper, to my regret.
I don't think that was the reason for the dishonorable mention,
though! I surely wasn't heard about it..
As to whom am I? Still trying to find out...
Regards,
Godfrey Kurtz
(New Brunswick, NJ)
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Samish <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden>
To: Saibal Mitra <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
Cc: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:57:54 -0700
Subject: Re: How did it all begin?
This is a teaser. Why did Tegmark's paper receive Dishonorable
Mention?
Who is Godfrey?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saibal Mitra" <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
To: "everything" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:14 AM
Subject: How did it all begin?
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508429
Tegmark's essay was not well received (perhaps Godfrey didn't like it?
:-) )
How did it all begin?
Authors: Max Tegmark
Comments: 6 pages, 6 figs, essay for 2005 Young Scholars Competition in
honor of Charles Townes; received Dishonorable Mention
How did it all begin? Although this question has undoubtedly lingered
for as
long as humans have walked the Earth, the answer still eludes us. Yet
since
my grandparents were born, scientists have been able to refine this
question
to a degree I find truly remarkable. In this brief essay, I describe
some of
my own past and ongoing work on this topic, centering on cosmological
inflation. I focus on
(1) observationally testing whether this picture is correct and
(2) working out implications for the nature of physical reality (e.g.,
the
global structure of spacetime, dark energy and our cosmic future,
parallel
universes and fundamental versus environmental physical laws).
(2) clearly requires (1) to determine whether to believe the
conclusions. I
argue that (1) also requires (2), since it affects the probability
calculations for inflation's observational predictions.
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