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Extremophiles in astrobiology: per Ardua ad Astra.

As we consider the possibilities of finding life on other planets, it behooves us to evaluate what we know about the limits for life on planet Earth. In our continued exploration of Earth, we are finding microbes in a variety of unexpected habitats. In geothermal hot springs, we have discovered organisms thriving at temperatures near the boiling point of water and at pH values down to 0.5; in t...

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The near horizon limit of the extremal BTZ black hole is a “self-dual orbifold” of AdS3. This geometry has a null circle on its boundary, and thus the dual field theory is a Discrete Light Cone Quantized (DLCQ) two dimensional CFT. The same geometry can be compactified to two dimensions giving AdS2 with a constant electric field. The kinematics of the DLCQ show that in a consistent quantum theo...

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