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Many worlds in one : the search for other universes

Title
Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin.
Author
Vilenkin, A. (Alexander)
Publication
New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
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viii, 235 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JSE 07-227
ISBN
  • 0809095238 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780809095230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005027057
  • 9780809095230
OCLC
61660278
Author
Vilenkin, A. (Alexander)
Title
Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin.
Imprint
New York : Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.
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9780809095230
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JSE 07-227
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