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| | Re: being inside a universe |
 | | On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Wei Dai wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:59:49PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Now, and we have discussed this before, I have no understanding of the >> expression "being inside a universe". |
 | | On the subject of "being inside a universe," there are some exciting papers by Fotini Markopoulou and others on a "category theory" (more precisely, "topos theory") outlook on this. |
 | | A popular treatment of the "what it means to be inside a universe" point of view is in the cosmologist Lee Smolin's book, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity," less than a couple of years old. |
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