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You apparently were flagged by a theoretical physicist.

A lot of "physicists" nowadays forget that we're supposed to be scientists, not dreamers. Dreams are nice, but experiment and observations valid theory.

I agree. Unless this has some modifications to the current model of the big bang which leads to _observable_effects_ , I don't know if this theory could even be validated as...well theory.

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There are still theoretical physicists who rely on empirical validation of the hypotheses we create. That's rather the whole point, and I'd venture (hope?) that only a small fraction of theoretical physicist think otherwise.

You know theory means explanation, not imagination, right?

I use the definition for theory as a hypothesis that has received sufficient experimental validation. So, by definition, many of the frontier quantum-gravity stuff doesn't fit this, unfortunately as compelling and fascinating as they are.

Again, I'm just agreeing with what s/he said, that unless we have experiment/observation, we don't know whether this really describes our universe's origins and/or evolution.

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