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| .2014 [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20141012194356/http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1409.1837 | Black holes don't exist? ]] [[ | .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