We introduce “anamorphic” cosmology, an approach for explaining the smoothness and flatness of the universe on large scales and the generation of a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of adiabatic density perturbations. The defining feature is a smoothing phase that acts like a contracting universe based on some Weyl frame-invariant criteria and an expanding universe based on other frame-invariant ...

It is problematic to allow reasoning about infinite sets to be as unconstrained as that about finite sets. Yet Constructivism seems too restrictive in not allowing one to assume that an ideal computer program will either halt or not halt. Creative Objectivism considers as meaningful any property of integers which is determined by a recursively enumerable set of events. This captures the hyperar...

Abstract It is widely thought that we have good reason to try be important. Being important or doing significant things supposed add value our lives. In particular, it make lives exceptionally meaningful. This essay develops an alternative view. After exploring what importance and how might relate meaning in life, a series of cases are presented validate the perspective being adds no The meanin...

Stars and gas in galaxies, hot intracluster medium, and intergalactic photo-ionized gas make up at most half of the baryons that are expected to be present in the universe. The majority of baryons are still missing and are expected to be hidden in a web of warm-hot intergalactic medium. This matter was shock-heated during the collapse of density perturbations that led to the formation of the re...

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between technology and language documentation and description. It is largely inspired by Bird and Simons (2003), or more specifically, section 4 of that paper (Bird and Simons 2003:570–2), where they suggest a general model for developing recommendations for the use of technology in the creation of linguistic resources—which I term the values-desid...

We present a fault-tolerant formula interpreter that aims at finding plausibly intended, formally correct and contextually meaningful specifications from user statements containing formal inaccuracies.

In the second self-creation theory of gravitation and in the general theory of relativity, Bianchi type VI0 cosmological model in the presence of viscous fluid is studied. An exact solution of the field equations is given by considering the cosmological model yields a constant decelerations parameter q=constant and the coefficients of the metric are taken as A(t)=[c1t+c<su...

Research has shown that people judge words as having bigger font size than non-words. This finding has been interpreted in terms of processing fluency, with higher fluency leading to judgments of bigger size. If so, symmetric numbers (e.g., 44) which can be processed more fluently are predicted to be judged as larger than asymmetric numbers (e.g., 43). However, recent research found that symmet...