Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Yi-Fu Cai, Jie Liu, and Hong Li

These three Chinese Physicists working from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, just posted in the arXive the paper, "Entropic cosmology: a unified model of inflation and late-time acceleration." They are connected intellectually with the whole world; full participants in a common quest for truth.

I can't help to think of Mao Zedong, sixty years ago he took his people off dope and put everybody to learn how to read and write.

As Cai et al. state:

"In this scenario, however, there exists a key controversial issue whether gravity is fundamental or emergent."

They also write:

"The frontier of modern physics suddenly goes back to pre-Einstein time one hundred years ago."

I guess for a thousand year old culture, that is yesterday.

I have a poll this week. So far the opinion that gravity is emergent is winning.

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