The Pseudo-Rip - 2 views
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Celia Escamilla on 14 Dec 11This is a dramatic illustration of the fact that any amount of observational data, necessarily restricted to the past lightcone and necessarily with non-zero errors, cannot predict anything mathematically about the future even one hour hence without further assumptions. It is also a display of the difference between mathematics and physics: the physicist necessarily employs intuition about the real world.