What is a ‘Physically Reasonable’ Spacetime?

February 15 2010
Types d’événements
Séminaire LARSIM
John Manchak
SPEC Bât 774, p.50
15/02/2010
from 11:00

Cosmologists often use certain global properties to exclude “physically unreasonable” models from serious consideration. But, on what grounds should these properties be regarded as physically unreasonable if we cannot rule out, even with a robust type of inductive reasoning, the possibility of the properties obtaining in our own universe?

University of Washington