Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin.
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TextPublication details: New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780809095230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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- QB981 .V526 2006
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| 524.8 TER Cosmology and astrophysics : | 524.8 TOU The return to cosmology : | 52-48 VIE Foundations of high-energy astrophysics / | 524.8 VIL Many worlds in one : | 524.8 VIT Cosmology | 524.8 WAG Cosmic horizons: understanding the universe | 52-48 WEE High-energy astrophysics |
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.
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