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in the. Mike Stannett, University of Sheffield (m.stannett@dcs.shef.ac.uk). New Worlds of Computation, LIFO, . Orléans. , 23 May 2011. Outline of talk. Cosmological computation (what is it?). First-order relativity theories (Andréka et al.). and overview of . cosmological arguments. Two examples:. Leibnizian. Kalam. Objections. Outline. Does God Exist?. Why is there something rather than nothing?. Is the Universe eternal?. Introduction. We’re venturing into some deep philosophy and physics. Andrii Neronov. University of Geneva. Durrer. & AN, . A&ARev. , 21, 62 (2013) . Overview . Magnetic fields in astronomy and cosmology. Characterization. of cosmological magnetic fields. Generation. leibniz and the metaphysics of evil BARROW AND LEIBNIZ ON THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM . OF CALCULUS. In . 1693, . Leibniz . published . a geometrical . proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus. During his notorious . dispute with . By the end of Chapter 2 we had made it to 1840 with the discovery of stellar parallax and correspondingly ridiculously large distances to the stars.. At this point, it is useful to introduce a device, similar to the Evil Genius device of Descartes, known as the Random Alien Test (or RAT). Under the RAT device, an alien spontaneously appears and asks random planetary inhabitants basic knowledge questions about the Universe that any "intelligent civilization" would know. So, in 1840 the RAT question would be:. naturalness and . supersymmetry. Natsumi. Nagata. E-ken Summer school. September 04, 2012. Task. 発表は、. M. １にも分かる内容を混ぜつつ、新しい内容まで発表することが目標です。. History and Present Status. . Motivated by . the book. :. Breakthrough Beyond the Edge of the World. Valery . Rubakov. Alexei . Starobinsky. Andrei . Linde. Vyacheslav. . Mukhanov. Vladimir . Lukash. Did the universe begin to exist, and if so what caused it?. Defenders. John Philoponus . (circa AD 580). Al-Ghazali . (AD 1058-1111). William Lane Craig. . (present). KCA. Argument:. Everything that . Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. Descartes’ question. Cosmological arguments usually ask ‘why does anything exist’?. Descartes doubts the existence of everything, and offers his cosmological argument after showing only that he . Cosmological Criticisms. Hume. 1711-1776. Empiricist. All knowledge comes from the senses. Imagination makes a connection between cause and effect. We think we know more about the world . than we really do. homgeneity. of the universe.. 2. understand how Hubble’s law is used to map the universe, and look back in time.. 3. Know each of the major predictions of the Big Bang theory, and corresponding confirmations by observation.. Giovanni Manfredi. Centre National de la . Recherche. . Scientifique. Institut. de Physique et . Chimie. des . Matériaux. de Strasbourg. Gabriel Chardin. , CNRS, France . Bruce Miller. , Texas Christian University, USA. Clare Burrage . University of Nottingham. What is dark energy . and how do we find it?. Clare Burrage. University of Nottingham. Outline:. Accelerated expansion and the cosmological constant. Dark energy, scalar fields, and fifth forces.