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Originally Posted by modest
It sounds vaguely like Michael's making reference to the Hartle-Hawking wave function which replaces the idea of the singularity in classical general relativity (the point at which the physics breaks down) with a kind of quantum analogue to a singularity. Read page 251-253. Is this what you're referring to, Michael? Are you saying you support Hawking's model? Or, are you talking about something else?
Links, please.
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Hawking wrote an intro endorsing Endless Universe by Neil Turok and Paul Steinhardt on M-theory cosmology, and I assumed this meant he was abandoning his singularity model of cosmic origin. This a few months after my criticism of the singularity quote (above) in Myspace. I doubt he or his team saw my posts there, but never the less....
Other refs of a similar nature:
Hawking Loses Bet; Changes Mind on Black Holes
Introduction to M-theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"However, many cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking, are drawn to M-Theory because of its mathematical elegance and relative simplicity."
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Amazon.com: Wesley L. Janssen's review of The Universe in a Nutshell
Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle
Theories of Everything
"Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause?"
Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause?
Some papers on black holes without singularities:
[gr-qc/0504029] Black hole evaporation: A paradigm
[gr-qc/0503041] A black hole mass threshold from non-singular quantum gravitational collapse
[gr-qc/0504043] Quantum Gravitational Collapse
[gr-qc/0411032] The Kantowski-Sachs Space-Time in Loop Quantum Gravity
[gr-qc/0407097] Disappearance of Black Hole Singularity in Quantum Gravity
[gr-qc/0412039] Quantum black holes from null expansion operators
[gr-qc/0410125] Quantum resolution of black hole singularities
"The Great Singularity Debate"
The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Hope this fulfills the request for links.
Michael
