Glass Bead Game of the Week (week 2)

[Robert L. Oldershaw]

“The Relic Problem of String Gas Cosmology”

http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2443 or

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0907/0907.2443v2.pdf

Strings! Gravitinos! Copious Gas! Super-Heavy Magnetic Monopoles!
AND MORE!!!

Oh my, Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore (nor anywhere in
the natural world either)!

This one should come with welder’s goggles to protect the reader from
the blinding bursts of artifice.

NO identifiable relation to observable reality.

NO definitive predictions (effectively untestable).

Is this Science? Science Deconstructed? Applied Phantasy?

Egad!
RLO
www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
http://independent.academia.edu/RobertLOldershaw