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Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument
Fergus Simpson
Whether the fate of our species can be forecast from its past has been the topic of considerable controversy. One refutation of the so-called Doomsday Argument is based on the prem…
Dark energy from the motions of neutrinos
Fergus Simpson, Raul Jimenez, Carlos Pena-Garay +1
We demonstrate that a scalar field is unable to reverse its direction of motion while continuously exchanging energy with another fluid. If the rate of transfer is modulated by the…
Bayesian evidence for the prevalence of waterworlds
Fergus Simpson
Should we expect most habitable planets to share the Earth's marbled appearance? For a planetary surface to boast extensive areas of both land and water, a delicate balance must be…
Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with the Euclid Satellite
Luca Amendola, Stephen Appleby, Anastasios Avgoustidis +69
Euclid is a European Space Agency medium class mission selected for launch in 2020 within the Cosmic Vision 2015 2025 program. The main goal of Euclid is to understand the origin o…
Structure formation simulations with momentum exchange: alleviating tensions between high-redshift and low-redshift cosmological probes
Marco Baldi, Fergus Simpson
Persisting tensions between the cosmological constraints derived from low-redshift probes and the ones obtained from temperature and polarisation anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwa…
The longevity of habitable planets and the development of intelligent life
Fergus Simpson
Why did the emergence of our species require a timescale similar to the entire habitable period of our planet? Our late appearance has previously been interpreted by Carter (2008)…