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Many worlds in one : the search for other universes

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Cosmologist Alex Vilenkin draws on emerging scientific research to offer a new theory about the creation, expansion, and eventual demise of the universe.

Abstract: Cosmologist Alex Vilenkin draws on emerging scientific research to offer a new theory about the creation, expansion, and eventual demise of the universe

Author(s): Vilenkin, Alexander
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 235
City: New York
Tags: Физика;Популярная физика;

Content: pt. 1. Genesis. --
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 --
pt. 2. Eternal inflation. --
The antigravity stone --
Runaway inflation --
The sky has spoken --
Infinite islands --
The king lives! --
pt. 3. Principle of mediocrity. --
The cosmological constant problem --
Anthropic feuds --
Mediocrity raised to a principle --
A theory of everything --
pt. 4. Before the beginning. --
Did the universe have a beginning? --
Creation of universes from nothing --
The end of the world --
Fire in the equations.