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I don't think so, if you want to make new discovery and solve problems you have to think on the wild side. You don't solve problems by going around in a circle you have to think outside of it.
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Refreshing, because this arm of science has become something of a broken record. The same old hyperbole - conjecture, rather than inquiry.
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Extrapolating hugely, the authors then apply Feynman's formulation of quantum mechanics to the whole universe: they announce that the universe does not have a single history, but every possible history, each one with its own probability.
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Post modernism...
It seems that the authors indulge themselves philosophically - indeed philosophy is not dead! Except where it is likely to compete...
I'm not permitted to comment further on this forum, but the contradiction is obvious and astounding. It seems that they are no closer to reality and have proposed further speculation. I guess we'll be reading about that for the next 20 years.
Is it not obvious that Hawking has an emotional interest in his claims, and that realistically, his endurance is not empowered by empirical inquiry, though he may wish to have the reader think that.