1974/01/01 by Brandon Carter · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
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Prof. Wheeler has asked me to say something for the record about some ideas that I once suggested (at the Clifford Memorial meeting in Princeton in 1970) and to which Hawking and Collins have referred ( Astrophys. J. 180 , 317, 1973). This concerns a line of thought which I believe to be potentially fertile, but which I did not write up at the time because I felt (as I still feel) that it needs further development. However, it is not inappropriate that this matter should have cropped up again on the present occasion, since it consists basically of a reaction against exaggerated subservience to the ‘Copernican principle’.