Physicist Paul Steinhardt on what’s wrong with inflation theory

[dnetesn]

http://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/ingenious-paul-j-steinhardt

[scribu]

The interview seems really interesting, but I find it very annoying to have to jump up and down the page to get the next video to load. Is there a "play all" button that I'm not seeing?

[JonnieCache → scribu]

Here's the whole interview in a playlist that they made but didn't link to: http://vimeo.com/album/3054418

There's a playlist (album) for each of their interviews apparently.

EDIT: still cant get it to autoplay though :(

[scribu → JonnieCache]

It seems that the "Watch in couch mode" button on the album page is what I was after.

[dnetesn → scribu]

Video cut into questions but full print transcript is also there.

[thibauts]

Or the universe develops as many dimensions as needed to accomodate incompatible states and solve itself, and three happens to be the sweet spot where stability settles. /rambling

[orbifold → thibauts]

This isn't that far off from ideas initially put forward by Brandenberger and Vafa...

[svachalek → thibauts]

Huh? My understanding of mainstream physics is that our universe is neither 3 dimensional nor stable. (search for "metastable" in this transcript, or look up string theory)