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"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…
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…
The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann-Schuetz Argument
Milan M. Cirkovic
The recent surge of interest in the origin of the temporal asymmetry of thermodynamical systems (including the accessible part of the universe itself) put forward two possible expl…
QSO Absorption Lines, Gaseous Infall and Star Formation
Milan M. Cirkovic, Srdjan Samurovic, Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar
We investigate the impact of recent observational advances in research on the gaseous content of the universe on our knowledge of star formation histories of disk galaxies. Several…
Microlensing, flattening, and : from assumptions, via data to tentative conclusions
Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar, Srdjan Samurovic, Milan M. Cirkovic
Microlensing observations can be used for determining the shape of the Milky Way's halo. It can be shown that the data are best described with moderately flattened halo, 0.5 < q <…
Microlensing Results and Removing the Baryonic Degeneracy
Milan M. Cirkovic, Srdjan Samurovic, Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar
One of the biggest obstacles to our full understanding of the global dynamics in Milky Way and other spiral galaxies is uncertainty with respect to the form of baryonic dark matter…