A perspective on the landscape problem
History and Philosophy of Physics
2015-06-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
I discuss the historical roots of the landscape problem and propose criteria for its successful resolution. This provides a perspective to evaluate the possibility to solve it in several of the speculative cosmological scenarios under study including eternal inflation, cosmological natural selection and cyclic cosmologies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.3373,
title = {A perspective on the landscape problem},
author = {Lee Smolin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3373},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited contribution for a special issue of Foundations of Physics titled: Forty Years Of String Theory: Reflecting On the Foundations. 31 pages, no figures