A Perspective on the landscape problem

Feb, 2012
31 pages
Published in:
  • Found.Phys. 43 (2013) 21
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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