Speaker
Stephon Alexander
(Brown University)
Description
Cosmological data is consistent with a positive cosmological constant. In this talk I discuss an approach pioneered by Smolin that uses a non-perturbative exact quantization of gavity with a cosmological constant in the Ashtekar formalism. I discuss follow up work by the Author and his collaborators that address some conceptual and potential physical predictions of this approach. I end with a discussion of Smolin's cosmic natural selection as a predictive mechanism which also had consequences in particular Anthrophic landscape realizations in string theory.
External references
- 25060032
- 44c6208e-68cf-4c2b-bdd6-6f551af43a48
