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Quantum Reports, 2023 The 2022 Tel Aviv conference on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics highlighted many differences between theorists. A very significant dichotomy is between Everettian fission (splitting) and Saunders–Wallace–Wilson divergence. For fission,
Paul Tappenden
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A brief history of the multiverse
, 2017 The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the world. According to its most popular version, our world may consist of infinitely many exponentially large parts, exhibiting different sets of low-energy laws of ...
Linde, Andrei
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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The Multiverse Theodicy Meets Population Ethics
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyThe multiverse theodicy proposes to reconcile the existence of God and evil by supposing that God created all and only the creation-worthy universes and that some universes like ours are, despite their evils, creation-worthy.
Han Li
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Temporal Passage in a Fragmented World
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fragmentalism is a relatively recent and striking addition to the debate between tensed and tenseless theories of time. First introduced by Fine in “Tense and Reality,” it presents a rare instance of both a theoretically intriguing and novel theory of time.
Kyley Ewing
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Post-Editorial of “The Multiverse” Special Volume
Universe, 2020 A succesful series of papers devoted to various aspects of an idea of the Multiverse have been gathered together and presented to the readers. In this post-editorial we briefly challenge the content referring to the main issues dealt with by the Authors.
Ana Alonso-Serrano +2 more
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, 2009 We explore the idea that the dynamics of the inflationary multiverse is encoded in its future boundary, where it is described by a lower dimensional theory which is conformally invariant in the UV.
A Vilenkin +21 more
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Dyslexia Research and Replicability: Should We Be Worried?
Mind, Brain, and Education, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Replicability has become a heated issue in empirical science. In interdisciplinary fields, such as dyslexia research, replications are deemed challenging due to the linguistic, cognitive, and contextual complexity of literacy. We discuss whether dyslexia research faces a replicability crisis and the implications of replicability issues for ...
Anna Yi Leung +2 more
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Multiverse Fiction: A narratological approach to infinite worlds narratives
BetweenIn recent years, movies and tv shows have increasingly adopted the notion and the structure of the multiverse from superhero comics, resulting in a great popularity of the concept across a wider audience. The article aims to define the basic features of
Gabriele D'Amato, Luca Diani
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Vacuum decay in an interacting multiverse
Physics Letters B, 2016 We examine a new multiverse scenario in which the component universes interact. We focus our attention to the process of “true” vacuum nucleation in the false vacuum within one single element of the multiverse. It is shown that the interactions lead to a
S. Robles-Pérez +3 more
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