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This contribution argues that the notion of time used in the scientific modeling of reality deprives time of its real nature. Difficulties from logic paradoxes to mathematical incompleteness and numerical uncertainty ensue. How can the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Roger White , Wolfgang Banzhaf

There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in systems architecture techniques such as, host migration of instances, mobile…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Kim J. L. Nevelsteen

The physical limits to computation have been under active scrutiny over the past decade or two, as theoretical investigations of the possible impact of quantum mechanical processes on computing have begun to make contact with realizable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence M. Krauss , Glenn D. Starkman

A fascinating and deep question about nature is what one would see if one could probe space and time at smaller and smaller distances. Already the 19th-century founders of modern geometry contemplated the possibility that a piece of empty…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Loll , J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz

It seems natural to ask why the universe exists at all. Modern physics suggests that the universe can exist all by itself as a self-contained system, without anything external to create or sustain it. But there might not be an absolute…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Sean M. Carroll

Many recent results suggest that quantum theory is about information, and that quantum theory is best understood as arising from principles concerning information and information processing. At the same time, by far the simplest version of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sheldon Goldstein

The key observation about quantum reality is that it often appears as if, at some moment, the probability of a quantum event becomes a definite outcome for us. A careful analysis suggests, however, that what we perceive as a definite state…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Aleksandar Perisic

Relativistic quantum information combines the informational approach to understanding and using quantum mechanics systems - quantum information - with the relativistic view of the universe. In this introductory review we examine key results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Timothy C. Ralph , Tony G. Downes

We review an information-theoretic approach to quantum cosmology, summarising the key results obtained to date, including a suggestion that an accelerating universe will eventually turn around.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-30 Rajesh R. Parwani

I explore whether it is possible to make sense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality by taking the proper subject of physics to be correlation and only correlation, and by separating the problem of understanding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. David Mermin

The physical models of a successful unified theory about the Universe must operate in different phase of matter evolution and different fields of physics. The attempts to build such wide range theory as a bunch of theories developed for…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sarg

The Physical Web is a generic term describes interconnection of physical objects and web. The Physical Web lets present physical objects in a web. There are different ways to do that and we will discuss them in our paper. Usually, the web…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Manfred Sneps-Sneppe , Dmitry Namiot

Can mathematics help us find our way through all the wonders and mysteries of the universe? When physicists describe the laws governing the physical world, mathematics is always involved. Is this due to the fact that the universe is, at…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 O. C. Stoica

I explore physics implications of the External Reality Hypothesis (ERH) that there exists an external physical reality completely independent of us humans. I argue that with a sufficiently broad definition of mathematics, it implies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Max Tegmark

We describe the universe as a single entangled ensemble of quantum particles. The total entropy of this world ensemble, which can be expressed as a sum of information, thermodynamic and entanglement components, is assumed to be always zero.…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Merab Gogberashvili

We argue, through some philosophical considerations, on (i)dependent or (ii) an independent existence of physical reality underlying quantum states. According these simple considerations, we conclude that is impossible to have a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michele Caponigro , Helen Lynn

The physical processes that determine the properties of our everyday world, and of the wider cosmos, are determined by some key numbers: the 'constants' of micro-physics and the parameters that describe the expanding universe in which we…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mario Livio , Martin J. Rees

We present the foundations of a new emerging interpretation of quantum theory bearing wide-range implications. Physical basis of the interpretation is non-questionable yet relatively new--it relies on the different structures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 M. Dugic , D. Rakovic , J. Jeknic-Dugic , M. Arsenijevic

We define a universe as the contents of a spacetime box with comoving walls, large enough to contain essentially all phenomena that can be conceivably measured. The initial time is taken as the epoch when the lowest CMB modes undergo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James D. Bjorken

A mathematical model of the natural origin of our universe is presented. The model is based only on well-established physics. No claim is made that this model uniquely represents exactly how the universe came about. But the viability of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-08 Victor J. Stenger