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Woit's take on the Not Even Wrong blog: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3185 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3185

• hugh3 16y ago
  And linked from that, Lubos Motl's even less charitable take: http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/09/bousso-et-al-catastrophe-imminent-time.html http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/09/bousso-et-al-catastrophe-i... Much like most other doomsday prophets and other kinds of crackpots, the authors are completely unable to understand the point and the arguments that they're assuming something fundamentally wrong in their very first axioms - and that's why everything they write down has to end up being a complete nonsense. Instead, they obviously expect a long sequence of follow-up papers that will discuss whether the Universe will cease to exist in 5.31 or 5.32 billion years and worship the amazing prophets, Bousso et al., who have predicted this amazing doomsday. This is also clear from a staged dialogue included in the paper where a semi-dumb person asks various questions about the doomsday that the authors would clearly like to be discussed in other people's papers.