The ten weirdest cosmologies?

by on August 11, 2006 at 6:55 am in Science | Permalink

Here is the list, courtesy of GeekPress.  But they are not trying very hard.  Here is one candidate:

3. Superfluid space-time

One of the most outlandish new theories of cosmology is that space-time is actually a superfluid substance, flowing with zero friction. Then if the universe is rotating, superfluid spacetime would be scattered with vortices, according to physicists Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina and George Chapline at Lawrence Livermore lab in California – and those vortices might have seeded structures such as galaxies. Mazur suggests that our universe might have been born in a collapsing star, where the combination of stellar matter and superfluid space could spawn dark energy, the repulsive force that is accelerating the universe.

Duh!  That’s not weird at all.  My favorite weird cosmology is missing from the list: time is an illusion, all possible universes exist, and that includes many universes with false memories and traces of a supposedly distant past.

Then there is always "elephants all the way down…"

Tim Worstall August 11, 2006 at 7:19 am

Or Terry Pratchett’s “turtles all the way down”.

Bernard Guerrero August 11, 2006 at 10:33 am

I think the turtles thing predates Pratchett. Something to do with Bertie Russell.

Tim Worstall August 11, 2006 at 10:58 am

Bernard,

May well be. Shows my level of intellectual achievement though. I’ve read all of Pratchett and perhaps three sentences of Russell.

dj superflat August 11, 2006 at 2:14 pm

i love the notion that qualia exist, that we’re not bilogical robots. i have no evidence that we are not biological robots. that is, i have seen no evidence that there could be a biological robot that acts as i do but would still be missing that magic something, that i am somehow different from what you would expect in a biological machine. the qualia folk assume a problem without proving one exists, and then say our inability to solve the posited problem demonstrates something. silly.

Matthew Cromer August 12, 2006 at 8:03 am

DJ, perhaps you don’t have experiences and that’s why you don’t see the problem. That would make you a zombie. . .

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