Physics Essay: Six Baseless and Irrational Problems in Modern Cosmology

Process and Reality an Essay in Cosmology

Differential and topological problems in modern theoretical physics

s of the minicourses Kenichi Konishi — Università di Pisa Advent of non-Abelian vortices Generalizing the well-known Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution in the Abelian Higgs model to non-Abelian gauge theories, vortex solutions carrying continuous zeromodes (vortex moduli space) were constructed in the year 2003 inspired by supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories, triggering an intense researc...

Modern Cosmology and Anthropic

Abstract: The anthropic fine-tuning of the cosmos refers to the claim that the laws of nature, the constants of physics, and the initial conditions of the universe must be set to an enormous degree of precision for life to exist. Three major responses have been offered to this fine-tuning: the multiverse explanation; theism; and the claim that it is just a brute fact that requires no further ex...

Collider Physics and Cosmology

In the coming year, the Large Hadron Collider will begin colliding protons at energies nearly an order of magnitude beyond the current frontier. The LHC will, of course, provide unprecedented opportunities to discover new particle physics. Less well-known, however, is that the LHC may also provide insights about gravity and the early universe. I review some of these connections, focusing on the...

Laboratory Physics and Cosmology

Following four different fundamental principles, in addition to Weinberg’s universal relation, we find five reasons demanding that any gravitational mass m, and the speed of light c, vary with cosmological time (the masses increasing linearly with time and the speed of light decreasing with time, in such a way that the product mc remains constant). This is required by the universal condition of...