Don Page
contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religion / Quantum Cosmologyb. 1948
Don N. Page is a Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Alberta, best known for his contributions to quantum gravity and black hole thermodynamics. A former student and collaborator of Stephen Hawking, Page has also written extensively on the intersection of cosmology and philosophy of religion, engaging questions of fine-tuning, the no-boundary proposal, and theistic implications of modern physics.
Notable Achievements
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Derived the Page time — the half-evaporation point at which a black hole's Hawking radiation carries maximal entanglement entropy
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Co-developed the Page-Wootters mechanism for emergent time in quantum gravity
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Collaborated with Hawking on the no-boundary wave function of the universe
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Published philosophical arguments examining fine-tuning, Boltzmann brains, and the measure problem in cosmology
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Engaged substantively with theistic and atheistic interpretations of quantum cosmology from an informed Christian perspective