November 23, 2007

• Through the Looking Glass:

  Another Pattern

  "It seems, as one becomes older,
  That the past has another pattern,
  and ceases to be
        a mere sequence...."

  -- T. S. Eliot, Harvard '10

  Quoted in Log24 on
  November 11, 2003

  A search at the New York Times
  for the subject of the previous entry
  reveals another aspect of that date:

  What Happened Before the Big Bang?

  "...trying to imagine how the universe made its 'quantum leap from eternity into time,' as the physicist Dr. Sidney Coleman of Harvard once put it. Some physicists speculate that on the other side of the looking glass of Time Zero is another..."

  November 11, 2003

  - By DENNIS OVERBYE
  - Technology
  - 819 words
  
  Related material:

  Peter Woit in his weblog
  on Nov. 12, 2007:

  "Is it a good idea for physicists to appear on a radio show
  discussing what happened before the big bang, or does the lack of any
  evidence about this or of a convincing model mean that this is just
  inherently too speculative a topic to be sold as serious science to a
  wide audience? Should one perhaps leave this topic to the Bogdanovs?"

  Or to T.S. Eliot,
  Annie Dillard, and
  William Shakespeare?
   
  For more on the date
  11/11, see
  Plato, Pegasus, and
  the Evening Star.

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