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Multiverse—Too Much or Not Enough?

Universe, 2019
The aim of this essay is to look at the idea of the multiverse—not so much from the standpoint of physics or cosmology, but rather from a philosophical perspective. The modern story of the multiverse began with Leibniz.
Michael Heller
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Do We Live in the Best of All Possible Worlds? The Fine-Tuning of the Constants of Nature

Universe, 2017
Our existence depends on a variety of constants which appear to be extremely fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life as we know it. These include the number of spatial dimensions, the strengths of the forces, the masses of the particles, the ...
Thomas Naumann
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Reconsideration of the Coleman's Baby Universe [PDF]

, 2015
We reconsider the Coleman's mechanism that solves the Cosmological Constant Problem by the baby universes. We use the Lorentzian path integral and allow each universe has a different effective field theory and a vacuum.
Kawana, Kiyoharu
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Permutation of the real: Greg Egan’s reinterpretation of virtual reality

Facta Simonidis, 2008
The article is a detailed study of the concept of virtual reality as portrayed in Permutation City, a 1994 novel by an Australian science fi ction author Greg Egan.
Dorota McKay
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The multiverse hierarchy

, 2007
I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions -- including an identical copy of you about 10 ...
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Multiversal entropy and information conservation in black hole nucleated baby universes

Nuclear Physics B
We propose a novel mechanism by which supercritical black holes formed via vacuum bubble or domain wall nucleation during the inflationary epoch not only give rise to baby universes, but also contribute to a generalized entropy accounting in the ...
Behnam Pourhassan
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ZAYIF İNSANCI İLKE VE ÇOK-EVRENSELLER İLE TASARIM DELİLİNE KARŞI ÇIKILABİLİR Mİ?

Felsefe Dünyası, 2013
Modern fizik tarafından sağlanan veriler, evrende insan varlığını olanaklı kılan çok hassas ayarların bulunduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Bu hassas ayarlar, tasarım argümanını desteklemek için veri olarak kullanılmıştır.
Caner Taslaman
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A Universe Designed for Life?

Zygon
Why are the laws of nature so special (“fine-tuned”) that the universe gives rise to intelligent creatures like ourselves, who can observe it and discover those laws?
Rodney D. Holder
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Valis: A quintessentially Phildickian novel [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019
The journeys of the protagonist of Philip K. Dick's novel Valis across different personalities, points in time, and realities become a penetrating exploration of the very fabric of the real through his heteromorphic cosmogony that can serve as a paradigm
Jakovljević Mladen M.
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Faraway, so Close: Perceptions of the Metaverse on the Edge of Madness

Computers
With the evolution of technologies, virtual reality allows us to dive into cyberspace through different devices and have immersive experiences in different contexts, which, in a simple way, we call virtual worlds or multiverse (integrating Metaverse ...
Mónica Cruz, Abílio Oliveira, Alessandro Pinheiro   +2 more
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