On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:00 AM, james f woodward wrote:
Well, as Edward Harrison makes "clear" in his chapter on horizons (where, I note, the coordinates used by Davis are introduced), this business can get a bit complicated and confusing. But I suspect that most folks doing cosmology assume the existence of a future deSitter horizon (and perhaps a particle horizon too). I also expect that almost none of them worry much, if at all, about perfect future absorption as they don't take WF action at a distance theory seriously. :-)
Yes, you are right they don't. Not doing so is their greatest blunder. The only mainstream cosmologist aware of it seems to be Bernard Carr. Every paper I know of only invokes the past particle horizon as the hologram screen -
none of them mention the future horizon as the hologram screen because that demands WF
retrocausation without retrocausation (a Wheelerism). Quite obviously, the future dark energy horizon is the Godzilla in the closet! Quite obviously it is effectively the WF future absorber explaining the Partridge experiment. There is no plausible alternative consistent with parsimony. If there is, then show me.
1) future 2D event horizon = pixelated hologram screen - conformal anyon quantum field theory
3) entropy of 3D observable universe bounded by area of this future horizon hologram computer screen
4) Therefore Arrow of Time is trivial 1 Bit at t = 0 (inflation) asympotic to 10^123 BITs.