We finally get a break in the heat, and once again we had a rain storm between nine and ten pm. This time it was quite a heavy rain that produced some local flooding. It must be that monsoonal flow I saw in certain forecast models recently. Keep it up, I say. Keep it coming.
Lately I've been playing around with the cosmological implications of "many worlds" and a certain interpretation of "many worlds" applied to inflationary theories. Come to find out, there are testable predictions in the form of features that would appear in the CMB. But there is a bit of ambiguity. If we simply assume non-Markovian processes during the epoch of inflation, would those features appear in the CMB anyway, without regard to any other assumptions? I think I've gone as far as I can go with this, but it was a diversion and far better than wasting my time with World Cup. And by the way, one of those CMB features has been already detected, although I believe the statistical significance of those observations is still somewhat less than five sigma. Another confirmation might be lurking in the noise. I have no idea whether that can be teased out of the background.
Rain and moderating temperatures have got me in a much better mood.
