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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 ]] .19 170K-300K left via foreign embassies, almost all students .01 1991 Oct US Embassy opened, Cultural Center .35 Professor Bardulla, different solution to exam .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? ]]) .21 Masters degree at UMD, 1997-2000 UW-Milwaukee for PhD, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Parker | Leonard Parker ]] .38 2994 Jan, UNC Chapel Hill === 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking_singularity_theorems | Hawking and Penrose singularity theorem ]] 8-14 argument from entropy, big bang VERY ordered? .15 foreshadow wrong question, different explanation .25 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann | 1922 Alexander Friedmann ]] expanding universe .26 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow | Gamow ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow#Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis | hot big bang ]] / 27 Helium-sized initial universe too big for uniformity .29 Universe not closed or open, geometrically flat .30 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Guth | Alan Guth ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Linde | Andrei Linde ]] .31 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation | inflation ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflaton | inflaton ]] 1e-45 seconds, 1e20 size increase .33 author believes cosmic inflation theory incomplete === Elsewhere === .2014 [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20141012194356/http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1409.1837 | Black holes don't exist? ]] .2017 [[ https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/3/2/48 | Classical Collapse to Black Holes and Quantum Bounces: A Review ]] Daniele Malafarina |
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
- 19 170K-300K left via foreign embassies, almost all students
- 01 1991 Oct US Embassy opened, Cultural Center
- 35 Professor Bardulla, different solution to exam
- 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?)
21 Masters degree at UMD, 1997-2000 UW-Milwaukee for PhD, Leonard Parker
- 38 2994 Jan, UNC Chapel Hill
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 foreshadow wrong question, different explanation
25 1922 Alexander Friedmann expanding universe
26 Gamow hot big bang / 27 Helium-sized initial universe too big for uniformity
- 29 Universe not closed or open, geometrically flat
- 33 author believes cosmic inflation theory incomplete
Elsewhere
2017 Classical Collapse to Black Holes and Quantum Bounces: A Review Daniele Malafarina