RE: Nature Article

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 16:30:12 MDT


I wrote:

    Rafal Smigrodzki:
    This raises interesting questions - how did the
    topology of the Universe arise from the singularity?
    Is the initial condition truly pointlike, or is
    it a manifold or other structure with more complex
    spatial organization?

Scerir wrote:

impossible quantum retrodiction becomes
perhaps a growing impediment.

### Do you mean the disappearance of the quasiclassical history at Planck
scale (if this is the right expression)?

If indeed this is the case, there would be a fundamental limit on our
ability to discern the mutually exclusive histories of the early Universe
before they decohered to produce our macroscopic world.

The beginning would be then forever shrouded in mystery.

Rafal



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