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Turtles All The Way Down

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Here are some web pages that have very little in common except that they include the phrase "Turtles all the way down."" Tagged by zecg under science, turtles, lore, phrase, hawking,

Does God Play Dice? - Professor Stephen Hawking

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"Many scientists are like Einstein, in that they have a deep emotional attachment to determinism. Unlike Einstein, they have accepted the reduction in our ability to predict, that quantum theory brought about." Tagged by zecg under lecture, hawking, quantum_physics, interesting, determinism, history, einstein, black_holes,

The elephant and the event horizon - fundamentals - 26 October 2006 - New Scientist Space

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"The idea is that Hawking radiation is not random but contains subtle information on the matter that fell in," Tagged by zecg under physics, science, quantum, astrophysics, article, research, hawking, susskind, maldacena, 科学, 物理,

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

zecg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0500

"However, within a few years we should know whether we can believe that we live in a universe that is completely self-contained and without beginning or end." Tagged by zecg under astronomy, astrophysics, book, media, ebooks, learning, time, universe, physics, reference, research, science, hawking, Books, space,

OK Grouputer: Heisenberg + LSD = Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse

zecg — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:24:00 -0400

"'Observations of final states determine different histories of the universe,' says Hawking. [...] So the idea is that to unravel the past, we must sum together all possible histories of the universe." Tagged by zecg under physics, science, philosophy, hawkings, flexiverse,

Nobel Intent: How to make a universe

zecg — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:24:00 -0400

"The new universe will disconnect from our own and continue on its merry way. From our point of view, the child universe will look like a microscopic black hole that emits a bit of Hawking radiation and then vanishes." Tagged by zecg under physics, universe, black_holes,