Andrew Curran, Sublime disorder. Physical monstrosity in Diderot’s universe

Disorder in the early universe

Little is known about the microscopic physics that gave rise to inflation in our universe. There are many reasons to wonder if the underlying description requires a careful arrangement of ingredients or if inflation was the result of an essentially random process. At a technical level, randomness in the microphysics of inflation is closely related to disorder in solids. We develop the formalism...

Exhibition of a Monstrosity

Models of the Physical Universe.

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The Sublime

In the film Independence Day (Emmerich, 1996), hundreds of gigantic spaceships invaded the earth, their shadows slowly blocked out the light in the cities over which they flew and filled the cinema screen with darkness. A group of humans gathered on top of a skyscraper over which one of the space ships hovered, in the hope that contact with an alien civilisation would promote the dawn of a new ...

Iniencephaly : A Type of Fœtal Monstrosity