Posted: May 18, 2017 7:31 pm
newolder wrote:DavidMcC wrote:newolder wrote:DavidMcC wrote:...
I was referring to their own words about how the idea came to them in a motorway traffic jam! Of course, they don't mention that in published papers, but certainly did in a TV interview - it was their words, not the journalist's.
The RS1 model is not concerned with universe creation.
So why did R&S talk about brane collisions causing big bangs?
Where did they do this? (Perhaps you are thinking of Paul Steinhardt & Neil Turok and their ekpyrotic model.)
I've enjoyed a lot of Steinhardt's lectures on this and other subjects. One of the things he mentions fairly often is that their brane model could be easily refuted by observations that were not too far off. That was from a number of years ago. Do you know what I'm talking about and if so, what became of it? I can go dig up the youtube links if needed.