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CinergieThis article explores the multiverse as a recurring narrative and symbolic configuration in contemporary verbo-visual media. It interprets it as the articulation of a hauntological condition, shaped by the erosion of ontological certainties regarding the
Giorgio Busi Rizzi, Lorenzo Di Paola
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The Third Quantization: To Tunnel or Not to Tunnel?
Galaxies, 2018 Within the framework of the third quantization, we consider the possibility that an initially recollapsing baby universe can enter a stage of near de Sitter inflation by tunnelling through a Euclidean wormhole that connects the recollapsing and ...
Mariam Bouhmadi-López +3 more
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Journal for Religion, Film and MediaUntil recently, in Western culture the “multiverse” has most typically been limited to the abstractions of theoretical physics or the imagination of comic-book writers.
Johnston, Robert K.
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Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Potentially Habitable Planets
Universe, 2019 How good is our universe at making habitable planets? The answer to this depends on which factors are important for life: Does a planet need to be Earth mass? Does it need to be inside the temperate zone? are systems with hot Jupiters habitable? Here, we
McCullen Sandora
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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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Invertibility in the Misère Multiverse
The Electronic Journal of CombinatoricsUnderstanding invertibility in restricted misère play has been challenging; in particular, the possibility of non-conjugate inverses posed difficulties. Advances have been made in a few specific universes, but a general theorem was elusive. We prove that every universe has the conjugate property, and also give a characterisation of the invertible ...
Alfie Davies, Vishal Yadav
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The Multiverse in Science Fiction, Metaphysics and Natural Science
Journal of Science Fiction and PhilosophyIn this article I go through the history of the notion of a multiverse, and compare how it has been used in non-fiction (in philosophy and natural science), and in science fiction. Within non-fiction I discuss, among others, modal realism and theories of
Mika Oksanen
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Logiko-filosofskie studii, 2016 В статье обсуждается вопрос о том, что полезного логика может для себя найти в современной тенденции в лингвистике изучать явление многоязычия. Отказ от моноязычия в логике не ведёт с необходимостью к логическому плюрализму. Достаточно часто плюрализм — это просто борьба за признание своего собственного языка, нежели довод в пользу иной логики.
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismThis article explores the circulation of the idea of multiple worlds as it unfolds within the creative universe of F.M. Dostoevsky. The relevance of the study lies in the interpretive complexity of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, particularly in the ...
Maksim V. Ganin
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