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| Cosmology can be strange, Communist Albania was stranger. | Cosmology can be strange, Communist Albania was stranger. This book takes a strange path through both, but arrives at worthwhile insights. The book mixmasters time sequences like many modern books, I will try to unmix it here. === Biography === .xi Albania 3M people, before 1991 the "North Korea" of Europe .xii mother's workplace had English books .xiii economist father Nexhat Mersini (no citations or biography found) new algorithm for inverting very big sparse matrices .03-4 math or physics? did both .17 1991 Feb university student hunger strike, [[ https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/albanian-workers-force-shift-toward-democracy-1991 | 100s of miners walked 50 miles to Tirana, overthrow government ]] .01 1991 Oct US Embassy opened, Cultural Center .01 1994 bachelor's degree physics, grad school elsewhere .01 1994 Jan, Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport to Fulbright Scholarship U Maryland, arrival paralyzing blizzard .05 200 physics grad students, 3 women .07 large bookstore in Bethesda ( [[ https://www.secondstorybooks.com | Second Story Books? ]]) === Philosophy of Science === .xix childlike curiosity endures, neoteny .xx benefits/justification, Faraday's "you will tax it someday" === Cosmology === .xvii we are part of a multiverse, with cross-talk to other universise due to quantum entanglement, predicting observables .06 Penrose: universe likelihood less than 10^(-10^1e123) .07 Hawking and Penrose singularity theorem 8-14 argument from entropy, big bang VERY ordered? .15 wrong question, different explanation |
Before The Big Bang
Laura Mersini-Houghton 2022
523.1 MER Beaverton Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Mersini-Houghton
Cosmology can be strange, Communist Albania was stranger. This book takes a strange path through both, but arrives at worthwhile insights. The book mixmasters time sequences like many modern books, I will try to unmix it here.
Biography
- xi Albania 3M people, before 1991 the "North Korea" of Europe
- xii mother's workplace had English books
- xiii economist father Nexhat Mersini (no citations or biography found) new algorithm for inverting very big sparse matrices
- 03-4 math or physics? did both
17 1991 Feb university student hunger strike, 100s of miners walked 50 miles to Tirana, overthrow government
- 01 1991 Oct US Embassy opened, Cultural Center
- 01 1994 bachelor's degree physics, grad school elsewhere
- 01 1994 Jan, Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport to Fulbright Scholarship U Maryland, arrival paralyzing blizzard
- 05 200 physics grad students, 3 women
07 large bookstore in Bethesda ( Second Story Books?)
Philosophy of Science
- xix childlike curiosity endures, neoteny
- xx benefits/justification, Faraday's "you will tax it someday"
Cosmology
- xvii we are part of a multiverse, with cross-talk to other universise due to quantum entanglement, predicting observables
06 Penrose: universe likelihood less than 10(-101e123)
- 07 Hawking and Penrose singularity theorem 8-14 argument from entropy, big bang VERY ordered?
- 15 wrong question, different explanation