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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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Toward a Tailored Acoustic‐Based Approach in Music Neuromodulation in Epilepsy

European Journal of Neurology, Volume 32, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Music‐based neuromodulation has garnered interest as a potential therapeutic approach for drug‐resistant epilepsy. This study expands on prior research by examining the effects of different musical features on interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) within intracerebral EEG (iEEG).
Ondřej Strýček, Jiří Mekyska, Štěpán Miklánek, Michal Fusek, Klára Štillová, Martin Mazánek, Ivan Rektor   +6 more
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Testing the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics with Cosmology

, 2015
In this brief note, we argue that contrarily to what is still often stated, the Everett many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is not in principle impossible to test.
Barrau, Aurelien
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Testing the Multiverse: Bayes, Fine-Tuning and Typicality

, 2017
Theory testing in the physical sciences has been revolutionized in recent decades by Bayesian approaches to probability theory. Here, I will consider Bayesian approaches to theory extensions, that is, theories like inflation which aim to provide a deeper
Barnes, Luke A.
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Indexicality, Bayesian background and self‐location in fine‐tuning arguments for the multiverse

Noûs
Our universe seems to be miraculously fine‐tuned for life. Multiverse theories have been proposed as an explanation for this on the basis of probabilistic arguments, but various authors have objected that we should consider our total evidence that this ...
Quentin Ruyant
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Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 71-81, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Ground physicalism is the view that higher‐level properties, such as phenomenal and normative properties, are fully grounded in the fundamental physical properties. Like other non‐identity physicalists, ground physicalists face the causal exclusion problem.
Will Moorfoot
wiley   +1 more source

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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Making predictions in the multiverse

, 2011
I describe reasons to think we are living in an eternally inflating multiverse where the observable "constants" of nature vary from place to place.
Ben Freivogel, Bousso R, Bousso R, Bousso R, Bousso R Freivogel B Leichenauer S Rosenhaus V, Bousso R Freivogel B Shenker S Susskind L Yang I S, Faulkner T Liu H Rangamani M, Freivogel B, Garriga J, Garriga J, Guth A H, Guth A H, Guth A H Vanchurin V, Heemskerk I Polchinski J, Linde A D, Linde A D, Maldacena J, Maldacena J M, Maloney A Shenker S Susskind L, Page D N, Phillips D Albrecht A, Strominger A, Susskind L, Vilenkin A   +23 more
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Spread Supersymmetry

, 2011
In the multiverse the scale of SUSY breaking, \tilde{m} = F_X/M_*, may scan and environmental constraints on the dark matter density may exclude a large range of \tilde{m} from the reheating temperature after inflation down to values that yield a LSP ...
A Abdo, A Hebecker, A Simone De, AD Linde, G Elor, G Giudice, G Larsen, G Vertongen, GF Giudice, H Martel, J Casas, J Garriga, J Hisano, J Hisano, J Hisano, J Hisano, J Hisano, JD Wells, JE Kim, JF Gunion, L Randall, Lawrence J. Hall, LJ Hall, LJ Hall, LJ Hall, LJ Hall, LJ Hall, LJ Hall, M Cirelli, M Ibe, M Kawasaki, M Tegmark, MR Buckley, MR Douglas, N Arkani-Hamed, PZ Skands, R Bousso, R Bousso, R Essig, R Hempfling, S Bailly, S Bethke, S Kachru, S Weinberg, Super-Kamiokande collaboration, T Damour, U Chattopadhyay, V Agrawal, Y Kawamura, Y Nomura, Yasunori Nomura   +50 more
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Multiverse: Mobility pattern understanding improves localization accuracy [PDF]

, 2019
Department of Computer Science and EngineeringThis paper presents the design and implementation of Multiverse, a practical indoor localization system that can be deployed on top of already existing WiFi infrastructure.
Abdikamalov, Beknazar
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