Anthony Burgess on "Apocalypse"

Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

APOCALYPSE SOON † by

Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0 < q 0 < 1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble time, thus res...

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Burgess on Plural Logic and Set Theory

John Burgess (Burgess, 2004) combines plural logic and a new version of the idea of limitation of size to give an elegant motivation of the axioms of ZFC set theory. His proposal is meant to improve on earlier work by Paul Bernays in two ways. I argue that both attempted improvements fail. John Burgess (Burgess, 2004) combines plural logic and a new version of the idea of limitation of size to ...

Author’s Response to Burgess

I thank Dr. Ian F. Burgess for critically commenting on the new concept for the treatment of epidermal parasitic skin diseases (EPSD), a group of infectious diseases common in the tropical world. However, I do not think that the article “is potentially misleading and likely to cause confusion and distress in some circumstances.” Please let me address the points raised by Dr. Burgess one by one....