A Perspective on the landscape problem
Feb, 2012Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
I discuss the historical roots of the landscape problem and propose criteria for its successful resolution. This provides a perspective to evaluate the possibility to solve it in several of the speculative cosmological scenarios under study including eternal inflation, cosmological natural selection and cyclic cosmologies.Note:
- Invited contribution for a special issue of Foundations of Physics titled: Forty Years Of String Theory: Reflecting On the Foundations. 31 pages, no figures
- cosmological model: cyclic
- landscape: history
- inflation
- string
- multiverse
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