JSchneider321

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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   Ah, I've seen that part explained better elsewhere, I guess. The idea was first postulated by John Wheeler that black holes and big bangs are the same phenomenon from opposite sides, and that instead of a singularity the collapse cause
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   See, I think that's where things just need to be cleaned up and pieced together here. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan ( https://physics.yale.edu/people/priyamvada-natarajan ) proved mathematically that direct-collapse SMBH
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   I see what you're saying, and I appreciate your thoughtful response. I'll admit, I tend to get excited by things and lean into them harder than what most people do. However, I've taken time to consider WHY I'm so excited
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   Okay, let's call it a speculative hypothesis. What do you think of it? Or each part separately, if you prefer. Could it be something worth pursuing to see if the math works out?
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   The man is an accomplished novelist, lol. The kind of ego they typically have, he'd probably rather die than allow LLM-generated content be associated with his writing.
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   I'm not the author (though some are accusing me of being his alt, lol), and I'll agree that Gough doesn't go as deep into the evolutionary mechanism as needed to really sell the idea to someone NOT already looking for an alte
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   I follow Julian on substack and found out about this discussion from there. I read this post months ago and have been itching to discuss it with people since, so I jumped at this chance. I didn't have an account yet, so I had to make o
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   I'd never heard of the site before yesterday. Doesn't some day need to be the first day everyone starts posting? And can't a theory someone read about months ago and finds compelling be reason enough to seek out others to eng
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   by JSchneider321 1y ago

   Where does it say it REQUIRES trillions? The way it reads to me, it's just associating the number of SMBHs to the number of galaxies we observe and postulates that number as a trillion, which I don't think is unreasonable given th
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    I missed the part where Gough claimed to be a mathematician. How do you propose we get to a mathematical model or testable simulation without considering the theory first? Must all theories be mathematically complete before they're pre
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    I believe Gough has expressed properly that you're welcome to consider Blowtorch Theory and ignore CNS entirely and it still works as an astrophysical model. Honestly, the longer process of reading the series of articles on the substac
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    > It can't be tested, and the predictions it makes can't be verified. To be clear, both Smolin's CNS and Gough's uptake of the theory make predictions and offer ways to be falsified, with Gough making accurate predict
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    I'm curious what you mean by this. We already know with confidence that when feeding, black holes emit relativistic jets from their poles that reach distances of tens of millions of light years. How could those not affect the environme
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    The parameters of the universe we live in seem fine-tuned for creation of stars, galaxies, black holes, and life. If those values change too much, you don't get any of it. That needs to be explained. Observation also reveals startling
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    Inflation seems to have been tuned to ensure this didn't happen, giving the cosmos time to grow while ensuring it didn't grow so quickly that galaxies couldn't form. Cosmological natural selection provides an explanation for
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    I know you're joking, but I was laid off in September and had a bunch of thinking and reading time. I worked my way back to cosmology and philosophy and found myself in a bit of crisis until I discovered, by chance, Julian Gough's
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    This doesn't feel like a good faith engagement with the ideas presented in the theory. > It has no coherent thesis It's literally in the subtitle: How early, sustained, supermassive black hole jets carved out cosmic voids, shap
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    by JSchneider321 1y ago

    Oh man, if you like math, you should check out this paper by Gardner and Conlon: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplx.21446 where they did the math for CNS. I'll admit, it's beyond me. There&