Tuesday, 1^st April 2008

I’m almost certain that Kitty Ferguson’s work¹ deserves all the praise it has received. J However, it is almost exactly 10-years since it was published and theoretical work has moved greatly since that time. The reasoned reports that black-holes do not, in fact, form doesn’t seem to have percolated far, yet. Condensed, correctly-quantised matter is now inextricably linked through supersymmetry to things ‘Dark’ and its behaviour is shown to be simultaneously more exciting than the asymptotic, singular nothingness of a purely Einsteinian (i.e. non-quantum) understanding of gravity’s action; geometrically exceptionally simple² and beautiful³; arithmetically anti-⁴; algebraically ultra-complex⁵ and paradoxically worthwhile. There exists nothing other, O, that is real: otherwise earlier assumptions are erroneous.

6. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0609/0609024v3.pdf

Observation of Incipient Black Holes and the Information Loss Problem

Tanmay Vachaspati, Dejan Stojkovic and Lawrence M. Krauss, 2007

and

7. www.universetoday.com/2006/04/11/podcast-dark-energy-stars/

Fraser Cain and George Chapline, 2006

Are two accessible accounts (tho’ the first is technical) from 21^st Century thinking.

The ontological debates of the last Century should be allowed to rest in peace.

Onwards, onwards, ever onwards…

2008, Cosmology, Stephen Weinberg, Oxford.

Thank you. :)

E₈(8).

1.    Prisons of Light - Black Holes, 1998, ISBN-13: 9780521625715 | ISBN-10: 0521625718 | http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521625718

2.    David Vogan, 2007, http://www-math.mit.edu/~dav/E8TALK.pdf

3.    Garrett Lisi’s, 2007, AESToE: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0711/0711.0770v1.pdf

4.    Grassman-1-form.

5.    Greg. Chaitin’s, ω^ε = ε

8.  2008, http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/E8GLTSCl8xtnd.html , Frank Dodd & Tony Smith, Jr.