True. The neutrino people, to their credit, were really, really humble, even basically saying "please find the mistake, because this is driving us crazy." They went through the normal process. In this inflation case, it feels a little closer to ... dare I even type this? ... the cold fusion business, just in terms of having a big announcement before full peer review has run its course. To think Stanford even makes this little video with Andre Linde being surprised and having some celebratory wine, tearing up, etc. UGH, fail.
Something could arise from nothing, infact if entropy is the overriding law of the universe, something would have to arise from nothing because nothing is the ultimate simplicity, singularity would actually be the next logical condition. Time only exists to an observer, the only definition of time is the relative movement of mass or energy as compared to another. Dark energy might be quantum entanglements (gravity) of multiverses, outside of our possible observation, acting on our universe. The sweet spot making life possible in our universe only appears to be a miracle because we are in it. It you have infinite universes at least one will be us, because we know at least one is us. Like, if you have an almost infinite number of planets that behave according physics as we know it in this universe, at least one will be Earth. We know it's possible because we exist. No, I'm not high, it's Sunday morning.
Correct. And now it is well beyond one guy's blog. It's being reported by Nature, so that data set is essentially dead for the time being.
