[quote:f9642f8d9b="CBI"][quote:f9642f8d9b="vaduz"][quote:f9642f8d9b]
Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before.[/quote:f9642f8d9b]
Этого уже достаточно, чтобы отправить такую теорию в мусорное ведро.
Даже не глядя на автора поста....[/quote:f9642f8d9b]
Какого автора поста Вы имеете ввиду - того кто оставил рецензию на amazon.com или меня? Если меня, то это глупо, я бы не советовал Вам использовать личные наезды в разделе "Наука и Жизнь" типа тех, какие Вы используете в разделе "Политика".
Теперь по теме:
Здесь приведена очень интересная дискуссия по обсуждаемой теме между Ли Смолиным, автором вышеприведенной книги, работающим в области квантовой гравитации (он написал также другую интересную книгу - Quantum Gravity) и Леонардом Сускиндом, другим известным современным физиком-теоретиком, который в частности первым изобрел теорию струн.
http://www.edge.org/discourse/landscape.html
[quote:f9642f8d9b="Susskind"]
This landscape of possibilities is a mathematical space representing all of the possible environments that theory allows. Each possible environment has its own laws of physics, elementary particles and constants of nature. Some environments are similar to our own corner of the landscape but slightly different. They may have electrons, quarks and all the usual particles, but gravity might be a billion times stronger. Others have gravity like ours but electrons that are heavier than atomic nuclei. Others may resemble our world except for a violent repulsive force (called the cosmological constant) that tears apart atoms, molecules and even galaxies. Not even the dimensionality of space is sacred. Regions of the landscape describe worlds of 5,6…11 dimensions. The old 20th century question, ''What can you find in the universe?'' is giving way to ''What can you not find?''
"The diversity of the landscape is paralleled by a corresponding diversity in ordinary space. Our best theory of cosmology called inflationary cosmology is leading us, sometimes unwillingly, to a concept of a megaverse, filled with what Alan Guth, the father of inflation, calls ''pocket universes.'' Some pockets are small and never get big. Others are big like ours but totally empty. And each lies in its own little valley of the landscape.
"Man’s place in the universe is also being reexamined and challenged. A megaverse that diverse is unlikely to be able to support intelligent life in any but a tiny fraction of its expanse. Many of the questions that we are used to asking such as ''Why is a certain constant of nature one number instead of another?'' will have very different answers than what physicists had hoped for. No unique value will be picked out by mathematical consistency, because the landscape permits an enormous variety of possible values. Instead the answer will be ''Somewhere in the megaverse the constant is this number, and somewhere else it is that. And we live in one tiny pocket where the value of the constant is consistent with our kind of life. That’s it! There is no other answer to that question.''
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PS
C Сусcкиндом я разговаривал около года назад о теории множественных Вселенных - он сказал, что пишет популярную книгу на данную тему и предложил, чтобы я как дилетант в области теоретической физики и космологии, прочитал черновик и поделился моими впечатлениями перед тем как книга выйдет. Я с радостью дал свой адрес электронной почты, так как я интересуюсь данной темой - но Сусскинд наверно забыл.
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книг на тему космологии ну и вообще по квантовой теории.
