Re: Universes infinite in time

2003-01-15 Thread Wei Dai
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:07:47PM -0800, Hal Finney wrote: > How could we go about modelling a universe like this? A mathematical model should be straightforward. For a computational model, consider a program that takes an infinitely long string as input, which it interprets as the description

Re: Universes infinite in time

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Bruno Marchal wrote: For example they will correctly infer some standard model particle theory from they high level experimentations, but as soon they will build particle accelerator to verify their theories, discrepancies will appear (just because we have not simulate the society-world at such a

Re: Universes infinite in time

2003-01-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 16:07 -0800 8/01/2003, Hal Finney wrote: The interesting aspect from this list's perspective is how to regard infinite-time cosmologies. Does it make sense to imagine a universe which has had an infinite past? How could we simulate that on a computer, if there were no starting point? We ce

Re: Universes infinite in time

2003-01-08 Thread Hal Finney
I wrote: > Paul Steinhardt, one of the original cosmic-inflation theorists and the > man who coined the term "quintessence" has a new theory of cosmology > which is described at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/020447. Sorry, the correct URL is http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204479. Hal