ISLAND UNIVERSES COLLIDING

2007 ◽  
pp. 453-456
Author(s):  
L. Snijders ◽  
P.P. van der Werf
Keyword(s):  
Island Universes

Kant and extragalactic revolution in astronomy

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Milan Cirkovic
Keyword(s):  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
Physical Universe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Island Universes

In this paper we briefly consider the role Kant's early philosophy, and notably his "island universes" hypothesis played in the history of astronomy. There are many reasons for this, including the coincidence of Kant's jubilee year with 80 years since Hubble's discovery (1924) of the extragalactic universe. This discovery, confirming the "island universes" hypothesis revolutionized our picture of the physical universe. Prehistory of this revolution has another aspect, apart from the historical one, of significance for philosophy: it presents one of the best supported and empirically documented instances of the application of the Duhem-Quine thesis on subdetermination of theory by experiments.

Awe

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-152
Author(s):  
John Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
James Agee ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Long Jump ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
Island Universes ◽  
The Universe

By awe, philosophers and psychologists mean the sensation that overcomes someone in the presence of something simultaneously vast, powerful, and, when compared to humans, strangely humbling. The chapter begins with a review of amazing discoveries such as island universes, the expanding universe, and the Big Bang that altered the understanding of the universe and made the solar system “seem but a speck of dust in infinite space.” It then turns to other sources of awe, or the Depression sublime: the Empire State Building; Jesse Owens’s record-setting long jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; the moral heroism of the Joads in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath; and James Agee and Walker Evans’s deification of tenant farmers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Whereas most accounts of the sublime involve the vastness of nature overwhelming human beings, during the Depression human beings themselves became a source of the sublime.

scholarly journals ANTI-DE SITTER ISLAND-UNIVERSES FROM 5D STANDING WAVES

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 2131-2143 ◽  
Author(s):  
MERAB GOGBERASHVILI ◽  
DOUGLAS SINGLETON
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Standing Waves ◽  
Warp Factor ◽  
De Sitter Spacetime ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Landscape Models ◽  
Sitter Spacetime ◽  
Gravitational And Cosmological Constants ◽  
Island Universes ◽  
Cosmological Constants

We construct simple standing wave solutions in a 5D spacetime with a ghost-like scalar field. The nodes of these standing waves are "islands" of 4D anti-de Sitter spacetime. In the case of increasing (decreasing) warp factor, there are a finite (infinite) number of nodes and thus a finite (infinite) number of anti-de Sitter island-universes having different gravitational and cosmological constants. This is similar to the landscape models, which postulate a large number of universes with different parameters.

Island Universes

2004 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Keyword(s):  
Island Universes

scholarly journals Future island universes in a background universe accelerated by a cosmological constant and by quintessence

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzihong Chiueh ◽  
Xiao-Gang He
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Island Universes

Classics of Science: The Island Universes

1928 ◽  
Vol 14 (381) ◽  
pp. 57
Keyword(s):  
Island Universes

Discovers an "Archipelago of Island Universes"

1934 ◽  
Vol 26 (703) ◽  
pp. 198
Keyword(s):  
Island Universes

scholarly journals Introduction

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 447-448
Author(s):  
A.P. Fairall
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Large Scale Structures ◽  
Redshift Surveys ◽  
John Herschel ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
Victorian Science ◽  
William Herschel ◽  
Island Universes

As we approach the 21st Century, enormous technical advances are being made in the acquisition of galaxy redshifts. This Joint Discussion offers a perspective on those advances and the associated redshift surveys. It is representative, but by no means all inclusive. My introduction offers some historical background, against which the new methods and achievements can be measured. Redshift surveys tells us about the spatial distribution and evolution of galaxies. Yet the study of large-scale structures in the distribution of galaxies goes back further than one might imagine. The first accurate description of the Virgo Supercluster was given by John Herschel in the mid-19thCentury. To paraphrase Sir John, “Virgo is the central condensation of a roughly spherical cluster of nebulae - our system lies outside the denser part of the cluster, but is involved with its outlying members - forming an element of some one of its protuberances or branches”. Victorian science might have beaten Hubble had more people believed John Herschel - and had he himself more confidence in his interpretation. Few were prepared to accept the ‘Island Universe’ theory that it implied, and strong criticism followed. Moreover, Herschel was very reluctant to go against the beliefs of his revered father, William Herschel, who, though once believing in the ‘Island Universes’, had in later life accepted that all nebulae were somehow gaseous condensations in our system. Consequently, even John Herschel’s textbook still stated the older, incorrect interpretation.

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