please ignore this post I only came here to say that buddha got the desire thing wrong, ramblings of a cheeky kunt.
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Originally Posted by Dent
Eternal inflation is interesting and I want to understand some of the problems with it, here's one thing that bugs me and isn't the same as eternalism.
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#yolo fuck it infinite past and future, space and time it is.
Here's a thread I found interesting
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...o/bDARcaWvz9AJ
"To say inflation is future but not past eternal requires a fundamental arrow of time found nowhere in any of the equations used in talking about this stuff. So it must be imposed somewhere."
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[hep-th/0702178] Eternal inflation and its implications
Although inflation is generically eternal into the future, it is not eternal into the past: it can be proven under reasonable assumptions that the inflating region must be incomplete in past directions, so some physics other than inflation is needed to describe the past boundary of the inflating region.
[1204.4658] Did the universe have a beginning?
We discuss three candidate scenarios which seem to allow the possibility that the universe could have existed forever with no initial singularity: eternal infation, cyclic evolution, and the emergent universe. The first two of these scenarios are geodesically incomplete to the past, and thus cannot describe a universe without a beginning. The third, although it is stable with respect to classical perturbations, can collapse quantum mechanically, and therefore cannot have an eternal past.
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Edit: I got to see lots of old buddhist stuff this past weekend, I think Blondie would have appreciated it more than I did.
Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond | MAA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Edit : still haven't slept, God looks a bit like this hyperboloid some of the time, going from the old steady state universe ---> singularity (big bang) universe ----> steady state multiverse with infinities all over the shop really is something.
I am going to find out some more about this "geodesically incomplete to the past" thing and whether it is a singularity (consensus is that it is, BGV) also what this singularity has to do with 'beginning' or whether next level physics can explain it all better.
Cosmic Questions - Turok: Eternal Inflation