An Atheist’s Eternity

The Strong Eternity Service

Strong Eternity Service is a safe and very reliable storage for data of high importance. We show how to establish persistent pseudonyms in a totally anonymous environment and how to create a unique fully distributed name-space allowing both computer-efficient and humanacceptable access. We also present a way how to retrieve information from such data storage. We adapt the notion of the mix-netw...

Call to atheists

As the media begin increasingly to focus on analyses of the US presidential candidate hopefuls, many people are now beginning to think about the consequences of the end of the Bush era. For researchers many potential changes loom — the new head of Britain's Medical Research Council, Leszek Borysiewicz, has already warned that the country's pre-eminent position in stem cell research is likely to...

The Eternity Service

The Internet was designed to provide a communications channel that is as resistant to denial of service attacks as human ingenuity can make it. In this note, we propose the construction of a storage medium with similar properties. The basic idea is to use redundancy and scattering techniques to replicate data across a large set of machines (such as the Internet), and add anonymity mechanisms to...

De Sitter Space and Eternity

This paper explores infrared quantum effects in the de Sitter space. The notion of ”eternal manifolds” is introduced and it is shown that in most cases the de Sitter space doesn’t belong to this class. It is unstable under small perturbations which may cause a breakdown of the de Sitter symmetry. The de Sitter string sigma model is discussed. It is argued that the gauge theory at the complex co...

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