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Is Quantum Suicide Painless? On an Apparent Violation of The Principal Principle
Milan M. Cirkovic
The experimental setup of the self-referential quantum measurement, jovially known as the "quantum suicide" or the "quantum Russian roulette" is analyzed from the point of view of…
"Permanence" - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox?
Milan M. Cirkovic
A new solution of Fermi's paradox sketched by SF writer Karl Schroeder in his 2002. novel "Permanence" is critically investigated. It is argued that this solution is tightly connec…
Three's a Crowd: On Causes, Entropy, and Physical Eschatology
Milan M. Cirkovic, Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar
Recent discussions of the origins of the thermodynamical asymmetry ("the arrow of time") by Huw Price and others are critically assessed. This serves as a motivation for considerat…
Cosmic Irony: SETI Optimism from Catastrophes?
Milan M. Cirkovic
Classical arguments for skepticism regarding the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are critically examined. It is suggested that the emerging class of "phase transiti…
Geo-engineering Gone Awry: A New Partial Solution of Fermi's Paradox
Milan M. Cirkovic, Richard Cathcart
Another partial solution of Fermi's famous paradox is proposed, based on our increased understanding of geophysics, geo-engineering and climatology. It has been claimed in the rece…
Quantum Parallelism in Quantum Information Processing
Miroljub Dugic, Milan M. Cirkovic
We investigate distinguishability (measured by fidelity) of the initial and the final state of a qubit, which is an object of the so-called nonideal quantum measurement of the firs…