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题 目: <<NST>>V --- Penrose on quantum cosmology
来 源: 哈尔滨紫丁香站
日 期: Mon Oct 20 13:01:10 1997
出 处: wangw@phy5.hit.edu.cn
The Nature of
Space and Time
Two relativists present their distinctive views on the universe, its
evolution and the impact of quantum theory
by Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose
V. Penrose on quantum cosmology:
From what I understand of Stephen's position, I don't
think that our disagreement is very great on this point
[the Weyl curvature hypothesis]. For an initial
singularity the Weyl curvature is approximately zero....
Stephen argued that there must be small quantum
fluctuations in the initial state and thus pointed out
that the hypothesis that the initial Weyl curvature is
zero at the initial singularity is classical, and there
is certainly some flexibility as to the precise statement
of the hypothesis. Small perturbations are acceptable
from my point of view, certainly in the quantum regime.
We just need something to constrain it very near to
zero....
Maybe the no-boundary proposal of [James B.] Hartle and
Hawking is a good candidate for the structure of the
initial state. However, it seems to me that we need
something very different to cope with the final state. In
particular, a theory that explains the structure of
singularities would have to violate [CPT and other
symmetries] in order that something of the nature of the
Weyl curvature hypothesis can arise. This failure of
time-symmetry might be quite subtle; it would have to be
implicit in the rules of that theory which goes beyond
quantum mechanics.
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