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Many Worlds in one : : the Search for Other Universes

Vilenkin, A. (Alexander) Book - 2006 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0809095238

SUBJECTS
Cosmology.
Cosmogony.
Cosmography.