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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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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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Navigating the Multiverse of Antisense RNAs: The Transcription- and RNA-Dependent Dimension [PDF]
, 2022 Giulia Pagani +2 more
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Emergence of multiverse in third quantized varying constants cosmologies
, 2019 Although the standard cosmological model explains most of the observed phenomena it still struggles with the problem of initial singularity. An interesting scenario in which the problem of the initial singularity is somehow circumvented was proposed in ...
Balcerzak, Adam, Marosek, Konrad
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Cosmic Inflation from Emergent Spacetime Picture
, 2016 We argue that the emergent spacetime picture admits a background-independent formulation of cosmic inflation. The inflation in this picture corresponds to the dynamical emergence of spacetime while the conventional inflation is simply an (exponential ...
Yang, Hyun Seok
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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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An Infrared Divergence Problem in the cosmological measure theory and the anthropic reasoning
, 2011 An anthropic principle has made it possible to answer the difficult question of why the observable value of cosmological constant ($\Lambda\sim 10^{-47}$ GeV${}^4$) is so disconcertingly tiny compared to predicted value of vacuum energy density $\rho_ ...
A. A. Shpilevoi +46 more
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Multiversal entropy and information conservation in black hole nucleated baby universes
Nuclear Physics BWe 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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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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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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