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Bias Against Boltzmann Brains?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A popular indifference principle for self‐locating probability faces skeptical challenges, most notably a skeptical challenge concerning Boltzmann Brains. We examine the prospects for various views that prescribe some degree of bias in place of indifference.
Sinan Dogramaci, Simon Goldstein, John Hawthorne, Miriam Schoenfield   +3 more
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The viability of modified gravity theories [PDF]

, 2009
PhDThis thesis studies the viability of classes of modified gravity (MG) theories based on generalisations of the Einstein-Hilbert action. Particular emphasis is given to f(R) theories in both the metric and Palatini formalisms, scalar-tensor theories ...
Uddin, Kotub
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A mathematical theoryof the accelerated expansion of the Universe based on the principle of least action

Современная математика: Фундаментальные направления
In classical works, the equations for gravitational and electromagnetism fields are proposed without deriving the right-hand sides. Here, we derive the right-hand sides and analyze the energy-momentum tensor within the framework of the Vlasov-Maxwell ...
V. V. Vedenyapin, Ya. G. Batishcheva, M. V. Goryunova, A. A. Russkov   +3 more
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Cosmological implications of Heisenberg's principle

, 2015
The aim of this book is to analyze the all important implications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for a finite universe with very large mass-energy content such as ours.
Gonzalo, Julio A
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
wiley   +1 more source

HOW THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON UNDERMINES THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

Kriterion
My aim here is to show how the Cosmological Argument (CA) is undermined by one of its own premises: the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). Firstly, I explain the type of CA that I am thinking about (I).
Sebastián Briceño
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmological perturbation theory and the variational principle in gravitation

, 2000
Summary in English.Include bibliographical references.In this thesis firstly the theory of relativistic cosmological perturbations is studies, in the process being reviewed over the period 1960-1993.
Laatz, C D
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On Our Cosmic (In)significance

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses three interpretations of cosmic significance, all of which reveal something important about the notion of significance. Along the way, it proposes a unified view of significance by combining elements of each of the views.
Oskari Sivula
wiley   +1 more source

Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
wiley   +1 more source