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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
wiley   +1 more source

THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF COSMOLOGY [PDF]

Quantum Cosmology and Baby Universes, 1991
92 pages, 14 figures, presented at 7th Jerusalem Winter School 1990 on Quantum Cosmology and Baby Universes, posted here because the school proceedings are out of ...
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum deformation of quantum cosmology: A framework to discuss the cosmological constant problem [PDF]

Physics of the Dark Universe, 2017
We endorse the context that the cosmological constant problem is a quantum cosmology issue. Therefore, in this paper we investigate the $q$-deformed Wheeler-DeWitt equation of a spatially closed homogeneous and isotropic Universe in the presence of a conformally coupled scalar field.
Jalalzadeh, S., Capistrano, A. J. S., Moniz, Paulo   +2 more
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Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

A QUANTUM APPROACH TO COSMOLOGY [PDF]

, 2006
We present a theory based upon the treatment of the gravitational field as a sea of gravity quanta, as defined elsewhere. The resultant model for the Universe is a static one, like Einstein first saw, with a new feature: a local shrinking quantum world that completely explains the Hubble red shift under a new point of view.
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Gravitational Fluctuations as an Alternative to Inflation III. Numerical Results

Universe, 2020
Power spectra play an important role in the theory of inflation, and their ability to reproduce current observational data to high accuracy is often considered a triumph of inflation, largely because of a lack of credible alternatives.
Herbert W. Hamber, Lu Heng Sunny Yu, Hasitha E. Pituwala Kankanamge   +2 more
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 645-660, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum Liouville cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Abstract We provide a detailed analysis of the disk path integral of timelike Liouville theory, conceived as a tractable and precise toy-model quantum cosmology in two dimensions. Disk path integrals with the insertion of matter field operators, taken along a judiciously chosen complex contour, yield states akin
Dionysios Anninos, Thomas Hertog, Joel Karlsson   +2 more
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