Interpreting cosmic no hair theorems: Is fatalism about the far future of expanding cosmological models unavoidable? |
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Institution: | 1. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, United Kingdom;2. Amsterdam University College, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 113, 1090 GD Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Abstract: | It may be tempting to interpret cosmic no hair theorems (establishing that, under certain conditions, a cosmological model with accelerating expansion approaches de Sitter metric in the future) as implying a form of fatalism about a future state of the universe. In this note I explore (rather general) philosophical and (more concrete) physical reasons to resist such temptation. There are good reasons to think that (even locally) futures of expanding cosmological models may be unlike de Sitter. |
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Keywords: | General relativity Cosmology Black holes Fatalism Determinism Cosmic no hair theorems |
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