Talk:Hartle-Hawking state
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[edit] Plain English summary needed
This page could really do with a plain English summary - I came to it looking for elucidation of the term "Hartle-Hawking boundary condition" from the Big Bang article, but that's not what this article offers.Rayray 10:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Seconded. --Christopher Thomas 00:51, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Absolutely. Just came to the discussion page to say exactly the same thing. 193.129.65.37 11:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Fourthed - I'm afraid this page is utter incomprehensible gibberish. Will see if I can contact original author for a clarification. DewiMorgan 03:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Complicated
Dear friends, the Hartle-Hawking state is a rather complicated technical construct. It is the wavefunction of the Universe - a notion meant to figure out how the Universe started - that is calculated from Feynman's path integral in a specific way, using particular boundary conditions. I doubt there is a correct but much more penetrable explanation. If popular articles mention it, I don't believe that their authors understand what they are writing unless they are quantum gravity experts. But good luck, Lubos --Lumidek 21:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! I smooshed some of your words in there and hopefully didn't munge the meaning too badly. But feel free to smoosh it back, or smoosh some more! Be bold! Basically, it needs to change from an incoherent mishmash of linked terms to an explanation of what it is, what it does, what it means, and what it's used for, by whom, and why that's important. DewiMorgan 20:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
