Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory

de Sitter Space in Non - Critical String Theory

Supercritical string theories in D > 10 dimensions with no moduli are described, generalizing the asymmetric orientifold construction of one of the authors [1]. By taking the number of dimensions to be large and turning on fluxes, dilaton potentials are generated with nontrivial minima at arbitrarily small cosmological constant and D-dimensional string coupling, separated by a barrier from a fl...

Critical Behavior of Target Space Mean Field Theory

Recently, the free energy of the target space mean field (TSMF) matrix model has been calculated in the low temperature phase, order-by-order in a low temperature expansion. The TSMF model is a matrix model whose discrete target space has an infinite coordination number, and whose free energy assumes a universal form, corresponding to baby universes joined into a tree. Here the free energy is s...

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HUMAN NATURE A Critical Reader

The Nature of Epistemic Space

There are many ways things might be, for all I know. For all I know, it might be that there is life on Jupiter, and it might be that there is not. It might be that Australia will win the next Ashes series, and it might be that they will not. It might be that my great-grandfather was my great-grandmother’s second cousin, and it might be that he was not. It might be that brass is a compound, and ...