تقرير
About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space
العنوان: | About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space |
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المؤلفون: | Gil, Francisco José Soler, Alfonseca, Manuel |
سنة النشر: | 2013 |
المجموعة: | Physics (Other) |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - General Physics, Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics |
الوصف: | This paper analyzes two different proposals, one by Ellis and Brundrit, based on classical relativistic cosmology, the other by Garriga and Vilenkin, based on the DH interpretation of quantum mechanics, both of which conclude that, in an infinite universe, planets and living beings must be repeated an infinite number of times. We point to some possible shortcomings in the arguments of these authors. We conclude that the idea of an infinite repetition of histories in space cannot be considered strictly speaking a consequence of current physics and cosmology. Such ideas should be seen rather as examples of {\guillemotleft}ironic science{\guillemotright} in the terminology of John Horgan. Comment: 14 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in slightly different form at THEORIA (http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA) |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5295 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1301.5295 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
الوصف غير متاح. |