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1. 'Constraints on the value of the fine structure constant from gravitational thermodynamics,' Foundation of Physics, (in the press)
2. ‘The implications of a cosmological information bound for complexity, quantum information and the nature of physical law,’ Fluctuation and Noise Letters. 7, L391 (2007)
3. 'Finding a second sample of life on Earth,' with C. Lineweaver, Astrobiology 5, 154 (2005)
4. 'Quantum vacuum friction,' J. Optics B 7 , S40 (2005)
5. 'Quantum tunneling time,' American J. Phys. 73 (1), 73 (2005)
6. 'Emergent biological principles and the computational resources of the universe,' Complexity 10 (2), 1 (2004)
7. 'Does quantum mechanics play a non-trivial role in life?' BioSystems 78, 69 (2004).
8. 'Transit time of a quantum particle in free fall,' Classical & Quantum Gravity 21, 5677 (2004).
9. 'Quantum mechanics and the equivalence principle,' Classical & Quantum Gravity 21, 2761 (2004).
10. 'Multiverse cosmological models,' Mod. Phys. Lett. A 19, 727 (2004).
11. 'Tachyonic dark matter,' Int. J. Theor. Phys. 43, 141 (2004).
12. 'Does life's rapid appearance imply an extraterrestrial origin?' Astrobiology 4, 673 (2003).
13. 'Black hole versus cosmological horizon entropy,' with T. M. Davis and C. Lineweaver, Classical and Quantum Gravity 20, 2753 (2003).
14. 'How bio-friendly is the universe?' International Journal of Astrobiology 2 (0), 1 (2003).
15. 'How far can the generalized second law be generalized?' with T.M. Davis, Foundations of Physics 32, 1877 (2003).
16. 'Order from disorder: the role of noise in creative processes,' with D. Abbott and C.R. Shalizi, Fluctuation and Noise Letters 2, No. 4, C1 (2002).
17. 'Cosmology: black holes constrain varying constants,' with T.M. Davis & C. Lineweaver Nature 418, 602 (2002).
18. 'Detection of negative energy: I. 4-dimensional examples,' with A. Ottewill, Phys. Rev. D 65, 104014-1 (2002).
19. 'Quantum vacuum noise in physics and cosmology,' Chaos 11, No. 3 (2001), 1.
20. 'The origin of life II: How did it begin?' Science Progress 8, 17 (2001).
21. 'The origin of life I: When and where did it begin?' Science Progress 8, 1 (2001).
22. 'Did Earthlife Come From Mars?' The Observatory 119, 310 (1999).
23. 'Einstein's greatest mistake?' Astrophys. & Space Sci. 244, 219 (1996).
24. 'The rotating quantum vacuum' with Tevian Dray & Corinne Manogue, Phys. Rev. D 53, 4382 (1996).
25. 'Time-symmetric cosmology and the opacity of the future light cone' with J. Twamley, Class. Quantum Grav. 10, 931 (1993).
26. 'Quantum vacuum instability near rotating stars' with A.L. Matacz and A.C. Ottewill, Phys. Rev. D 47, 1557 (1993).
27. 'A cosmological dissipative structure' Int. J. Theor. Phys. 28, 1051 (1989).
28. 'Thermodynamic phase transitions of Kerr-Newman black holes in de Sitter space' Class. Quantum Grav. 6, 1 (1989).
29. 'Journey through a black hole' with I.G. Moss, Class. Quantum Grav. 6, L173, (1989).
30. 'Particle detector response near static reflecting boundaries' with X. Liu and A. Ottewill, Class. Quantum Grav. 6, 1041 (1989).
31. 'Cosmological event horizons, entropy and quantum particles' Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré 49 (No. 3), 297 (1988).
32. 'Cosmological horizons and entropy' Class. Quantum Grav. 5, 1349 (1988).
33. 'Quantum gravitational effects near cosmic strings' with V. Sahni, Class. Quantum Grav. 5, 1 (1988).
34. 'Cosmological horizons and the generalized second law of thermodynamics' Class. Quantum Grav. 4 L225-L228 (1987).
35. 'The anthropic principle' Postepy Fizyki 37, 213 (1986).
36. 'Gravitational entropy: beyond the black hole' with D.N. Page and L.H. Ford, Phys. Rev. D 34, 1700 (1986).
37. 'Measurement of the velocity of a Dirac particle' J. Phys. A 19, 2114 (1986).
38. 'Boundary effects and the massless limit of the photon', with D.J. Toms, Phys. Rev. D 31, 1363 (1985).
39. 'Inflation in the universe and time asymmetry', Nature 312, 524 (1984).
40. 'Mining the universe', Phys. Rev. D 30, 737 (1984).
41. 'Acceleration radiation in a compact space' with E. Copeland and K. Hinton, Class. Quantum Grav. 1, 179 (1984).
42. 'The anthropic principle' Prog. Particle Nucl. Phys. 10, 1 (1983).
43. 'Accelerated observers to not detect isotropic thermal radiation' with K. Hinton and J. Pfautsch, Phys. Letts. B 120, 88 (1983).
44. 'Inflation and time asymmetry in the universe' Nature 301, 398 (1983).
45. 'Spontaneously generated gravity and the second law of thermodynamics' Phys. Letts. B 110, 111 (1982).
46. 'Can moving mirrors violate the second law of thermodynamics?' Phys. Letts. B 113, 215 (1982).
47. 'Broken symmetry theories of gravity and implications for cosmology' with R. Critchley and G. Kennedy, Phys. Letts. B 112, 331 (1982).
48. 'Quantum theory and the equivalence principle' with J. Fang, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 381, 569 (1982).
49. 'An exactly soluble moving-mirror problem' with W.R. Walker, J. Phys. A 15, L477 (1982).
50. 'The anthropic principle and the early universe' Mercury 10, 66 (1981).
51. 'Why is the cosmological constant so small?' with S.D. Unwin, Proc. R. Soc. A 377, 147 (1981).
52. 'Gauge theories, black hole evaporation and cosmic censorship' Phys. Letts. 101B, 399 (1981).
53. 'Quantum vacuum energy and the masslessness of the photon' with S.D. Unwin, Phys. Letts. 98B, 274 (1981).
54. 'Massive particle production in anisotropic space-times' with N.D. Birrell J. Phys. A 13, 2109 (1980).
55. 'Conformal symmetry breaking and cosmological particle creation' with N.D. Birrell, Phys. Rev. D 22, 322 (1980).
56. 'Effects of field interactions upon particle creation in Robertson-Walker universes' with N.D. Birrell and L.H. Ford, J. Phys. A 13, 961 (1980).
57. 'Perturbation technique for quantum stress tensors in a general Robertson-Walker space-time' with W.G. Unruh, Phys. Rev. D 20, 388 (1979).
58. 'Massless Thirring model in curved space; thermal states and conformal anomaly' with N.D. Birrell, Phys. Rev. D 18, 4408 (1978).
59. 'Thermodynamic theory of black holes' Rep. Prog. Phys. 41, 1313 (1979).
60. 'On falling through a black hole into another universe' with N.D. Birrell, Nature 272, 35 (1978).
61. 'Non-conformal renormalised stress tensors in Robertson-Walker space-times' with T.S. Bunch, J. Phys. A 11, 1315 (1978).
62. 'Equivalence of massless boson and fermion theories in curved two dimensional space-time: Sugawara stress tensor' J. Phys. A 11, 179 (1978).
63. 'Quantum field theory in de Sitter space; renormalization by point splitting' with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 360, 117 (1978).
64. 'Energy-momentum tensor of a massless scalar quantum field in a Robertson-Walker universe' with S.A. Fulling, S.M. Christensen and T.S. Bunch, Ann. Phys. 109, 108 (1977).
65. 'Singularity avoidance and quantum conformal anomalies' Physics Letts. 68B, 402 (1977).
66. 'Covariant point-splitting regularization for a scalar quantum field in a Robertson-Walker universe with spatial curvature' with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 357, 381 (1977).
67. 'Stress tensor and conformal anomalies for massless fields in a Robertson-Walker universe' with T.S. Bunch, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 569 (1977).
68. 'Neutrino stress tensor regularization in two-dimensional space-time' with W.G. Unruh, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 259 (1977).
69. 'Radiation from moving mirrors and from black holes' Proc. Roy. Soc. A 356, 237 (1977).
70. 'Quantum Vacuum Stress Without Regularization in Two-Dimensional Space-Time', Proc. Roy. Soc. A 354, 529 (1977)
71. 'Quantum vacuum energy in two-dimensional space-times' with S.A. Fulling, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 354, 529 (1977).
72. 'The thermodynamic theory of black holes' Proc. Roy. Soc. A 353, 499 (1977).
73. 'Black hole thermodynamics and time asymmetry' Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 177, 179 (1976).
74. 'On the origin of black hole evaporation radiation' Proc. Roy. Soc. A 351, 129 (1976).
75. 'Energy-momentum tensor near an evaporating black hole' with S.A. Fulling and W.G. Unruh, Phys. Rev. D 13, 2720 (1976).
76. 'Weak interaction in the big bang' Nature 259, 157 (1976).
77. 'Radiation from a moving mirror in two-dimensional space-time; conformal anomaly' with S.A. Fulling, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 348, 393 (1976).
78. 'Some cosmological consequences of imaginary mass' Nuovo Cimento 25, 571 (1975).
79. 'Scalar particle production in Schwarzschild and Rindler metrics' J. Phys. A 8, 609 (1975).
80. 'On recent experiments to detect advanced radiation' J. Phys. A 8, 272 (1975).
81. 'Second law of thermodynamics' Nature 248, 366 (1974).
82. 'Do black holes really explode?' with J.G. Taylor, Nature 250, 37 (1974).
83. 'The thermal future of the universe' Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 161, 1 (1973).
84. 'Closed time as an explanation of the black body background radiation' Nature Physical Science 240, 3 (1972).
85. 'Is the universe transparent or opaque?' J. Phys. A 5, 1722 (1972).
86. 'Time variation of the coupling constants' J. Phys. A 5, 1296 (1972).
87. 'Extension of Wheeler-Feynman quantum theory to the relativistic domain: II-Emission processes' J. Phys. A 5, 1025 (1972).
88. 'Extension of Wheeler-Feynman quantum theory to the relativistic domain: I-Scattering processes' J. Phys. A 4, 836 (1971).
89. 'Charged particle creation in cosmology' Nuovo Cimento 6B, 16 (1971).
90. 'A quantum theory of Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics' Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 68, 751 (1970).
91. 'Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravitation' Nature 228, 270 (1970).
92. 'Cosmology and electrodynamics' Nature 224, 1102 (1969).
93. 'Radiation damping in the optical continuum' with M.J. Seaton, J. Phys. B2, 757 (1969).

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