MIRROR WORLD AND ITS COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

Mirror World and Its Cosmological Consequences

We briefly review the concept of a parallel ‘mirror’ world which has the same particle physics as the observable world and couples to the latter by gravity and perhaps other very weak forces. The nucleosynthesis bounds demand that the mirror world should have a smaller temperature than the ordinary one. By this reason its evolution should substantially deviate from the standard cosmology as far...

Mirror World and Axion: Relaxing Cosmological Bounds

The cosmological (upper) limit on the Peccei-Quinn constant, related to the primordial oscillations of the axion field, can be relaxed for a mirror axion model. The simple reason is that the mirror world is colder and so the behavior of the axion temperature-dependent mass is dominated by the contribution from the mirror sector. So the coherent oscillations start earlier and correspondingly the...

Acquiring a Physical World and Serving Its Mirror World Simultaneously

A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth and Virtual Earth have proven their usefulness and potentialities. We introduce a novel method to build a mirror world by acquiring environment data represented as a point cloud. Since our system provides a streaming s...

Losing trust in the world: Humiliation and its consequences

The author identifies acts of humiliation as a specific and often traumatic way of exercising power, with a set of consistently occurring elements and predictable consequences, including a loss of the ability to trust others. It is argued that these consequences are serious and long-lasting. The article makes a distinction between 'shame' as a state of mind and 'humiliation' as an act perpetrat...

Globalization and Its Unhealthy Consequences for the Developing World