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Anthony Aguirre

Professor of Physics | University of California, Santa Cruz
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Cosmological Koans Questioning the Foundations of Physics It From Bit or Bit From it?

Physicist Anthony Aguirre Goes Deep in ‘Cosmological Koans’ Book

June 11, 2019

- UCSC News

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Thinking Really Big

March 2019

- UC Santa Cruz Magazine

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PostedApril 20, 2019
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Leading AI Researchers Vow to Not Develop Autonomous Weapons

July 18, 2018

- CNNMoney

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PostedAugust 1, 2018
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Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous

March 15, 2018

- The Atlantic

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PostedApril 2, 2018
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Plunge Into a (Virtual Reality) Black Hole

December 4, 2017

- Quanta Magazine

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PostedDecember 31, 2017
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These 23 Principles Could Help Us Avoid an AI Apocalypse

February 2, 2017

- Gizmodo

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PostedJuly 31, 2017
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The Crowd Sees Tomorrow Coming

November 18, 2016

- Inverse

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PostedDecember 24, 2016
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Metaculus: A Prediction Website With an Eye on Science and Technology

November 2, 2016

- Yale News

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PostedNovember 30, 2016
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Physicist Anthony Aguirre Appointed to Endowed Chair in Physics of Information

September 28, 2016

- UCSC News

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PostedOctober 10, 2016
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Forecasting the Future: Can The Hive Mind Let Us Predict the Future?

September 15, 2016

- Futurism

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PostedSeptember 30, 2016
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The Fermi Paradox, and Why We Haven’t Encountered Aliens

April 26, 2016

- Daily Dot

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PostedMay 2, 2016
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Can Dancing Teach You Quantum Physics?

November 9, 2014

- 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, NPR

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PostedJanuary 2, 2015
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Good News, Bad News: The Universe Next Door

January 9, 2013

- 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, NPR

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities

December 31, 2012

- The New York Times

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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How Big Is the Universe?

August 27, 2012

- Horizon, BBC Two

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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It's a Paradox

February 29, 2012

- The Nature of Reality, NOVA

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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The Case for Parallel Universes

July 19, 2011

- Scientific American

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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Alternate Theory Poses Dark Matter Challenge

February 23, 2011

- Nature News Blog

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PostedOctober 2, 2013
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Recent Publications

Anything Can Happen, But Only Given Half a Chance: A Quantum Bound on Large Fluctuations Away From Equilibrium

— arXiv preprint

Quantum Coarse-Grained Entropy and Thermodynamics

— Physical Review A

Algorithms for the Explicit Computation of Penrose Diagrams

— Classical and Quantum Gravity

Constraining Cosmological Ultralarge Scale Structure Using Numerical Relativity

— Physical Review D

Why Is the Internet So Slow?!

— International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement

In the News

  • Physicist Anthony Aguirre Goes Deep in ‘Cosmological Koans’ Book

    Anthony Aguirre explores deep questions about the nature of reality, using an approach inspired by Zen koans to take the reader on a thought-provoking tour of the cosmos and the core ideas of modern physics. — UCSC News

  • Thinking Really Big

    From the time before time to potential existential dangers of the future, physicist Anthony Aguirre peers into the mysteries that define our reality. — UC Santa Cruz Magazine

  • Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous

    The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive. — The Atlantic

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Anthony Aguirre
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Physics
aguirre@scipp.ucsc.edu


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