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Future Foam
Raphael Bousso, Ben Freivogel, Yasuhiro Sekino +4
We study pocket universes which have zero cosmological constant and non-trivial boundary topology. These arise from bubble collisions in eternal inflation. Using a simplified dust…
The Census Taker's Hat
Leonard Susskind
If the observable universe really is a hologram, then of what sort? Is it rich enough to keep track of an eternally inflating multiverse? What physical and mathematical principles…
Cosmic Natural Selection
Leonard Susskind
I make a number of comments about Smolin's theory of Cosmic Natural Selection.
The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory
Leonard Susskind
In this lecture I make some educated guesses, about the landscape of string theory vacua. Based on the recent work of a number of authors, it seems plausible that the lanscape is u…
Twenty Years of Debate with Stephen
Leonard Susskind
This is my contribution to Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday party. Happy Birthday Stephen!
String Theory and the Size of Hadrons
Joseph Polchinski, Leonard Susskind
We begin by outlining the ancient puzzle of off shell currents and infinite size particles in a string theory of hadrons. We then consider the problem from the modern AdS/CFT persp…