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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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BiomoleculesCellular quiescence is operationally defined as a temporary and reversible cessation of proliferation. This state encompasses a wide range of physiological situations since most cells, from microbes to cells composing complex tissues, spend most of their lives non-dividing, waiting for signals to reproliferate.
Damien Laporte, Isabelle Sagot
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Some Trends in the Philosophy of Physics
Theoria, 2011 A short review of some recent developments in the philosophy of physics is presented. I focus on themes which illustrate relations and points of common interest between philosophy of physics and three of its `neighboring' elds: Physics, metaphysics and ...
Henrik Zinkernagel
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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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A quantum measure of the multiverse [PDF]
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014 It has been recently suggested that probabilities of different events in the multiverse are given by the frequencies at which these events are encountered along the worldline of a geodesic observer (the "watcher"). Here I discuss an extension of this probability measure to quantum theory.
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One Philosopher’s Bug Can Be Another’s Feature: Reply to Almeida’s “Multiverse and Divine Creation”
Religions, 2018 Michael Almeida once told me that he thought we were just a couple of hours of conversation away from reaching deep agreement about some important topics in the philosophy of religion pertaining to God, multiverses, and modality. This paper represents my
Klaas J. Kraay
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Eternal Progression in a Multiverse: An Explorative Mormon Cosmology [PDF]
, 2006 Kirk D. Hagen
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Probabilities in the inflationary multiverse [PDF]
, 2006 Jaume Garriga +3 more
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Probabilities in the Bousso–Polchinski multiverse [PDF]
, 2006 Delia Schwartz-Perlov +1 more
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Anthropic reasoning and typicality in multiverse cosmology and string theory [PDF]
, 2006 Steven J. Weinstein
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