The One
How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
ERRATA
- p. 2 in the US edition: "But nobody
knows what happened before inflation. Was there an absolute beginning?
Or did inflation go on forever, and is it maybe still going on outside
our own universe, in other regions of a "multiverse"?": While cosmic inflation
is probably going on forever once started and nobody can say how long it is
already going on or what came before, it is not entirely accurate to say that
it could have going on eternally in the past. According to Will Kinney's book "An Infinity of Worlds" there are arguments that there actually was a beginning of inflation, even if it may lay arbitrarily far in the past.
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p. 69, line 11 in the US edition: "mathematical" should be "mathematically", as pointed out by Nitin Rughoonauth.
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p. 71 in the US edition: "A few years earlier, Schrödinger had pondered such implications, only to dismiss them at once: 'The idea that... all really happen simultaneously seems lunatic... just impossible... If the laws of nature took this form... we should find our surroundings rapidly turning into a quagmire, or sort of featureless jelly.'": As pointed out by John Gribbin, this misrepresents the original quote, in which Schrödinger is giving an example of what other physicists think, not he himself.
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p. 85 in the US and UK editions: the "famous German lullaby" quoted is the "Abendlied"
(Evening Song/The Moon Has Risen) by Matthias Claudius from 1779. The English translation
by Betram Kottmann is copyright-protected, and quoted here from
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/abendlied-der-mond-ist-aufgegangen-moon-has-been-arising.html
with the kind permission of
the translator.
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p. 96, line 1, in the US edition: "Alan" should be "Alain", as pointed out by Nitin Rughoonauth.
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p. 299 (Glossary), in the US and UK editions: in "Bit" "strain of zeroes and ones" should be "series of zeroes and ones"
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p. 343 (Index), in the US edition: "Alan" should be "Alain"
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