"Somewhat more exotic is the idea... by Lee Smolin in his book... [T]hese pictures are a little hard to draw... The difficulty seems... a... drawback. It may mean... something... troublesome about the geometry. ...[W]e have black holes forming ...You must imagine each one of these forming ...take this funnel ...that's supposed to represent the universe ...which expands from the Big Bang and ...its expansion accelerates because of ... or, if you're more boring like me, the cosmological constant ...and according to Smolin, all these black holes, which form at various places, could be the origins of new universes, and you see them sprouting off at various places... [Y]ou can adopt the Wheeler idea of maybe having the constants of nature changing to reach one of these phases."
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Roger Penrose
englischer Mathematiker, theoretischer Physiker und Autor
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