Many worlds in one :
Vilenkin, A.
Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin. - 1st ed. - New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. - viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What banged, how it banged, and what caused it to bang? -- The rise and fall of repulsive gravity -- Creation and its discontents -- The modern story of genesis -- The inflationary universe -- Too good to be wrong -- Eternal inflation -- The antigravity stone -- Runaway inflation -- The sky has spoken -- Infinite islands -- The king lives! -- Principle of mediocrity -- The cosmological constant problem -- Anthropic feuds -- Mediocrity raised to a principle -- A theory of everything -- Before the beginning -- Did the universe have a beginning? -- Creation of universes from nothing -- The end of the world -- Fire in the equations.
9780809095230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2005027057
Cosmology.
Cosmogony.
Cosmography.
QB981 / .V526 2006
523.1
Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin. - 1st ed. - New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. - viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What banged, how it banged, and what caused it to bang? -- The rise and fall of repulsive gravity -- Creation and its discontents -- The modern story of genesis -- The inflationary universe -- Too good to be wrong -- Eternal inflation -- The antigravity stone -- Runaway inflation -- The sky has spoken -- Infinite islands -- The king lives! -- Principle of mediocrity -- The cosmological constant problem -- Anthropic feuds -- Mediocrity raised to a principle -- A theory of everything -- Before the beginning -- Did the universe have a beginning? -- Creation of universes from nothing -- The end of the world -- Fire in the equations.
9780809095230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2005027057
Cosmology.
Cosmogony.
Cosmography.
QB981 / .V526 2006
523.1