A presocratic cosmological proposal

Details A presocratic cosmological proposal A presocratic cosmological proposal

Dec 1999

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 125-130 (1999).

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History, Alcman, Cosmogony, Cosmology

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Alcman is known as one of the greatest lyric poets of the ancient world. However, the publication of the Oxyrhynchus papyrus No. 2390 in 1957 caused a great deal of excitement. This papyrus, from the second century AD, contains parts of a comment written in prose, which implies that in one of his poems Alcman deals with a kind of a god-created cosmogony. That cosmogonical view, formulated by Alcman in the middle of the seventh century BC, describes much older considerations that resemble certain modern cosmological conjectures. In terms of the latter, the observable universe emerged out of a point singularity interior to a white hole which, due to the time symmetry of Einstein's field equations, can be considered as a time-reversed black hole.

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