Thomas Gold

It was the simplest approach, as Aristotle had discovered, if one wishes to avoid a discussion of a creation event.

Indeed, the philosophical attraction of the notion that the universe on average is not only homogeneous and isotropic in space but also constant in time was so appealing that a school of English cosmologists, Hermann Bondi, Fred Hoyle, and Thomas Gold, would call it the perfect cosmological principle.

But for now, that about wraps everything up.

This is episode fifty-two, Cosmology, of Quantum Foam.

... versus a natural cave.

And also, uh, think about what survives a major solar outburst, which would include in some cases, and this was discussed as early as the 1960s by, uh, astrophysicist Thomas Gold, who is now deceased, and people sort of laughed at him at the time.

He was talking about how there could be a major solar outburst, and essentially what would look like big bolts of lightning would penetrate down and hit the surface of the earth in some places, and, uh, set forest fires, cause literal incineration of things on the surface, in some cases would melt rock, you know, the surface layers of rock, and then would re-solidify, what's known as vitrification, because it forms a- Type of natural glass.

We're now finding evidence of this around the world at the end of the last ice age.

Um, psychologically, we, we, we believe that, uh, uh, uh, the, the, uh, that time is pointing in, in, in, in that direction.

There was, there was an idea, uh, uh, uh, is it Thomas Gold? The Gold Universe, uh, uh, uh, uh, hypothesis, which is that the universe starts off a big, as a big bang, it expands, and then it recollapses in a big crunch, uh, uh, and everything is symmetric.

So if it starts off with a big bang and time is moving forwards and it reaches maximum entropy, then if it starts to recollapse again, if it's symmetric, entropy has to start decreasing again, right, to get back to a point of low entropy.

Well, if entropy is decreasing due, in the collapsing phase, but psychologically we always think our future is in the direction of higher entropy, then the universe now may be collapsing, but, you know, as seen from outside-