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At the Crossroads of Time, Science and History [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2020
Our paper is searching for historical and discursive contexts which might explain the sudden flare-up of the idea of parallel worlds in the science, history and literature of the mid-20th-century.
Maria-Ana Tupan
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Multiversality [PDF]

open access: yesClassical and Quantum Gravity, 2013
23 pages.
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Quantum state of the multiverse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A third quantization formalism is applied to a simplified multiverse scenario. A well defined quantum state of the multiverse is obtained which agrees with standard boundary condition proposals.
A. Strominger   +9 more
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A graceful multiversal link of particle physics to cosmology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper we work out a multiverse scenario whose physical characteristics enable us to advance the following the conjecture that whereas the physics of particles and fields is confined to live in the realm of the whole multiverse formed by finite ...
A. Bloom   +21 more
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Quantum Cosmology with Third Quantisation

open access: yesUniverse, 2021
We reviewed the canonical quantisation of the geometry of the spacetime in the cases of a simply and a non-simply connected manifold. In the former, we analysed the information contained in the solutions of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation and showed their ...
Salvador J. Robles-Pérez
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Multiverse: Promises, Pitfalls, and a Framework for the Evaluation of Analytic Decisions

open access: yesAdvances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2021
Decisions made by researchers while analyzing data (e.g., how to measure variables, how to handle outliers) are sometimes arbitrary, without an objective justification for choosing one alternative over another.
Marco Del Giudice, Steven W. Gangestad
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History: A medieval multiverse [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2014
Ideas in a thirteenth-century treatise on the nature of matter still resonate today, say Tom C. B. McLeish and colleagues.
McLeish, Tom C.B.   +6 more
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Is the Quilted Multiverse Consistent with a Thermodynamic Arrow of Time?

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2018
Theoretical achievements, as well as much controversy, surround multiverse theory. Various types of multiverses, with an increasing amount of complexity, were suggested and thoroughly discussed in literature by now.
Yakir Aharonov   +3 more
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Mythology, Weltanschauung, symbolic universe and states of consciousness

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
This article investigates whether different religious (mythological) worldviews can be described as alternative and altered states of consciousness (ASCs).
Gert Malan
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Measures for a Transdimensional Multiverse

open access: yes, 2010
The multiverse/landscape paradigm that has emerged from eternal inflation and string theory, describes a large-scale multiverse populated by "pocket universes" which come in a huge variety of different types, including different dimensionalities.
A. De Simone .   +29 more
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