What is the present-day status of The Copernican Principle?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I point out that according to the Copernican principle our universe is not unique. The way to make sense out of this statement is for us to construct a gravitational instanton that will tunnel out of our vacuum into another, to form a universe other than our Hubble bubble.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0505066,
title = {What is the present-day status of The Copernican Principle?},
author = {Y. Nutku},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0505066},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
an essay deemed not to be worthy of even an honorable mention