Cosmology {Content}

Principle

Support systematic rational updates of my own worldview.

Ranked worldview

1. Informational physics
   • very close digital physics or physical information by asserting that information is the basis
   • cf WithoutNotesMay11#InformationIsProtophysical and WithoutNotesMay11#IsInformationPhysicalOrIsPhysicsInformational but much before that discovering the work of Rolf Landauer
   • yet attention to a potential bias of Cookbook/Cognition#HistoryOfDominantCognitiveModels
2. cosmological hypothesis B proposed by Y at date Tb
3. cosmological hypothesis C proposed by Z at date Tc

Explanation of the ranking

Actual cosmological hypothesis rank by credibility based on my understanding of the logical components it is relying on.

General notions

• Wikipedia:Cosmology
  • Wikipedia:Timeline of cosmology
  • Wikipedia:Observable universe#Cosmological_horizon
    • to which I still have an RSS on
  • Wikipedia:Demiurge
  • Wikipedia:Quantum Darwinism
    • Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#QuantumDarwinism
• Scholarpedia:Category:Cosmology
  • Scholarpedia:Computational cosmology
• Wikipedia:Digital physics
  • Wikipedia:John Archibald Wheeler, coined the expression "it from bits"
  • Wikipedia:Physical information
  • Wikipedia:B. Roy Frieden developed Wikipedia:Extreme physical information
    • cf ScanningNotes#ScienceFromFisherInformation

Books to discover

• Cosmology: A Research Briefing by the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA), NAP 1995
• Physics from Fisher Information by B. Roy Frieden, Cambridge University Press 1999
  • written before ScanningNotes#ScienceFromFisherInformation
• Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang by Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, DoubleDay 2007
  • ScanningNotes#EndlessUniverse
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, Random House September 2010
• The Shape of Inner Space by Shing-Tung Yau, Basic Books September 2010

Journals

• Journal of Cosmology

Research centers

• CfA Research: Cosmology Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics Case Western Reserve University
• Cosmology Research, Berkeley Astronomy Department

Researcher pages

• The Universes of Max Tegmark, MIT
  • my upload of Mathematical universe (visualization of Max Tegmark for BBC Horizon)

See also

• key pages
  • Philosophy
  • MyBeliefs
• read books
  • ProgrammingTheUniverse
  • ABriefHistoryOfTime
• Cosmology: Recent Results and Future Prospects by Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study September 2010
• FQXi - Foundational Questions Institute

To do

1. add arXiv
   • General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
   • Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics authors/titles recent submissions
2. organize other classical references
   1. Le Programme National de Cosmologie (PNC)
3. check compatibility
   1. between hypothesis
   2. with the last evidences
4. compare to Turok the more recent Scientists glimpse universe before the Big Bang by Lisa Zyga, PhysOrg November 2010
   1. cf Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) in Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity
5. Physics for the 21st Century on-line course that explores the frontiers of physics.
6. Introduction to Cosmology by Geraldine Servant, The Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) 2009