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Universe or Multiverse?

By Bernard Carr

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521848415, 9780521848411
LCC
QB985 .U549 2007
Open Library ID
OL22754185M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2903554 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
519\519
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

One answer to the question about us being the only intelligent life in the cosmos is answered by the multiverse theory of multiple universes. This is a subject that has received a lot of thinking and mathematical analysis in recent years. Recent developments in cosmology and particle physics, such as the string landscape picture, have led to some serious thinking that ours is not the only universe. This book has papers from a number of active and eminent researchers in the field, mainly from cosmologists and particle physicists, but also from such diverse fields as philosophy. The papers cover the complete spectrum from enthusiastic support to outright scepticism. There is very little advanced mathematics in the book when compared with some other texts on the subject.

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