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I thought I had a fairly decent, laymen’s gross understanding of String Theory. Boy, was I ever wrong. I’m just ever so confused after reading The Myth of the Beginning of Time<\/a>, a Scientific American article from a few months ago.<\/p>\n

I don’t even understand what problem they’re trying to solve. It seems reasonably obvious to me that a universe that grew out of a single occurrence would have homogeneous properties associated with it. I don’t understand why certain areas of the universe would need to be able to communicate with other areas to tell them how to behave. <\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just that I don’t know the underlying maths, or maybe the model (or my understanding of the model) is too crude. <\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s an interesting read if you’re interested in that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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