相关论文: The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III

Review of the third edition of "Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy" by Thompson, Moran and Swenson

I argue that the Oxford school Everett interpretation is internally incoherent, because we cannot claim that in an Everettian universe the kinds of reasoning we have used to arrive at our beliefs about quantum mechanics would lead us to…

James Philip Elliott, one of the towering figures of nuclear physics of the second half of the twentieth century, died on the 21st of October 2008. Obituaries appeared in the British press but relatively little attention was paid by the…

Comment on the article by S. Gandolfi et al. Phys.Rev.Letters 118 (2017), 232501; arXiv:1612.01502 [nucl-th]

This is a chapter for the book "Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions" edited by Lincoln D. Carr (Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, 2010)

The paper "Critical Truths About Power Laws" (Science, 335, pp665-666) by MPH Stumpf MPH and MA Porter is commented

It is fair to say that the deepest mystery in our understanding of nature is the birth of our universe. Much of the dilemma over the last decades comes from the extraordinarily small probability that the universe started with the high…

I will report below on a few examples of raving and insane (or maybe utterly genial) sentences that can be found in famous and otherwise admirable books of physics, because I genuinely believe it is amusing.

The linear mathematics of quantum mechanics gives many versions of reality instead of the single version we perceive, with the perceived version chosen at random according to a probability law. Because of these peculiarities, the theory…

Valid ideas that physical reality is vastly larger than human perception of it, and that the perceived part may not be representative of the whole, exist on many levels and have a long history. After a brief general inventory of those ideas…

As a result of discussions with Bousso and Vilenkin I want to return to the question of whether the multiverse is past-eternal or if there was a beginning. Not surprisingly, given three people, there were three answers. However, the…

Revisions: reference added to: G. Gilbert, {\sl Nucl.Phys.} {\bf B328}, 159 (1989)

The potential energy of a deformed nucleus has been determined within a Generalized Liquid Drop Model taking into account the proximity energy, the microscopic corrections and compact and necked shapes. Multiple-humped potential barriers…

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

Discussion of ``Breakdown and groups'' by P. L. Davies and U. Gather [math.ST/0508497]

In this paper we propose a totally serious algorithm to solve NP problems in polynomial time provided one is willing to wager the fate of all observers in the universe on the many-world interpretation of quantum theory being correct.