Laura Mersini-Houghton
Autor(a) de Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
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- 4
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Her theory, called Quantum Landscape Multiverse, is an offshoot of Hugh Everett's Many Worlds theory, perhaps the leading current multiverse theory. The main difference is that Everett's theory assumes that all of a quantum waveform's decoherences are equally likely; whereas Mersini-Houghton's theory bases a given universe's likelihood of being created on energy potentials from the "landscape" of all possible string theory solutions that can effectively render string's canonical eleven dimensions into four-dimensional spacetime. It's an ingenious theory, one that raises the question, why bring such a gnarly human construct as string theory into it? Doing so seems inelegant, somewhat off-puttingly anthropocentric for a general theory of universe creation.
Regardless of technical questions or criticisms one might make, this is a spirited, information-packed, entertaining read.… (mais)