Vilenkin, A. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780809095230 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005027057 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cosmology.<br/>Cosmogony.<br/>Cosmography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB981  / .V526 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>523.1