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Questions
Here is a list of Frequently Asked Questions, based on this blog post. Hopefully it will grow as questions are frequently asked.
If you have questions about the book, or would like to discuss it, you should feel free to start a discussion at the Facebook page. We've had a weekly book club at Cosmic Variance. There are also some reviews and interviews.
Additional Resources
To keep you tided over until the book appears.
- Scientific American article on the arrow of time.
- A shorter article in Seed magazine.
- The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time, a public talk at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival in October 2009.
- Edge interview, talking about why the universe looks the way it does.
- Time Since Einstein, a panel discussion at the World Science Festival.
- The Beginning of the Universe, a short talk at Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 in 2007.
- The Universe is Not Ergodic, a technical seminar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
- Cosmology Primer
Technical papers:
- Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time, with Jennifer Chen.
- Is Our Universe Natural?
- What If Time Really Exists?
Related blog posts:
- Arrow of Time FAQ
- How Did the Universe Start?
- The Future of the Universe
- Rules for Time Travelers
- Boltzmann's Anthropic Brain
- A Glimpse into Boltzmann's Actual Brain
- Boltzmann's Universe
- Richard Feynman on Boltzmann Brains
- The First Quantum Cosmologist
- Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas
- Spontaneous Inflation
- What We Know, and Don't, and Why
- Incompatible Arrows, I: Martin Amis
- Incompatible Arrows, II: Kurt Vonnegut
- Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll
- Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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