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  2. Olbers's paradox - Wikipedia

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    The paradox is that a static, infinitely old universe with an infinite number of stars distributed in an infinitely large space would be bright rather than dark. [1] A view of a square section of four concentric shells. To show this, we divide the universe into a series of concentric shells, 1 light year thick.

  3. Kalam cosmological argument - Wikipedia

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    The Kalam cosmological argument was influenced by the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.It originates in the works of theologian and philosopher John Philoponus (490–570 AD) [10] and was developed substantially under the medieval Islamic scholastic tradition during the Islamic Golden Age.

  4. Multiverse - Wikipedia

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    A common feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most elegant theory involves parallel universes by default. To deny the existence of those universes, one needs to complicate the theory by adding experimentally unsupported processes and ad hoc postulates: finite space, wave function collapse and ontological ...

  5. Static universe - Wikipedia

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    In cosmology, a static universe (also referred to as stationary, infinite, static infinite or static eternal) is a cosmological model in which the universe is both spatially and temporally infinite, and space is neither expanding nor contracting. Such a universe does not have so-called spatial curvature; that is to say that it is 'flat' or ...

  6. List of superseded scientific theories - Wikipedia

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    Static Universe theory [14] Steady state theory , a model developed by Hermann Bondi , Thomas Gold , and Fred Hoyle whereby the expanding universe was in a steady state , and had no beginning. It was a competitor of the Big Bang model until evidence supporting the Big Bang and falsifying the steady state was found.

  7. Many-worlds interpretation - Wikipedia

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    The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation.In this interpretation, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.

  8. Quantum suicide and immortality - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Everett did not mention quantum suicide or quantum immortality in writing; his work was intended as a solution to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Eugene Shikhovtsev's biography of Everett states that "Everett firmly believed that his many-worlds theory guaranteed him immortality: his consciousness, he argued, is bound at each branching to follow whatever path does not lead to death". [5]

  9. Infinity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Taylor - A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in Four Books. In which his principle physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded, and it is shown, from undubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks.