Monday, November 6, 2017

Andrei Linde, Stanford quantum cosmologist on consciousness

Amazing interview from Andrei Linde on consciousness

This dude is the opposite of "woo-woo" and yet considers consciousness to be real - on its own terms - outside of mind. Amazing stuff.
If you did not have normal matter then you do not have it after inflation, unless you know how to produce it. Usually you produce equal numbers of particles and antiparticles. But you need just a little more of particles and they form the basis of our life. This process of the creation of matter is impossible without quantum mechanics. You know that there exists the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and one of its formulation is delta E multiplied by delta T is comparable with the Planck's Constant. So if you violate energy conservation law, but do it quickly, then nobody can catch your hand and say you violated the energy conservation.
8 excerpts of his interview

In inflation energy of matter is not conserved - only with gravity is energy of matter conserved.

His academic lecture from his July on the inflationary universe

Now we think that initially the universe was rapidly inflating, being in an unstable energetic vacuum-like state. It became hot only later, when this vacuum-like state decayed. Quantum fluctuations produced during inflation are responsible for galaxy formation. In some places, these quantum fluctuations are so large that they can produce new rapidly expanding parts of the universe. This process makes the universe immortal and transforms it into a multiverse, a huge fractal consisting of many exponentially large parts with different laws of low-energy physics operating in each of them.Professor Linde is one of the authors of inflationary theory and of the theory of an eternal inflationary multiverse.
https://kipac.stanford.edu/people/andrei-linde

Linde gets surprised about gravitational waves showing cosmic inflation youtube

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