Many worlds in one
Subtitle: other universes - fiction or reality?
By: Alex Vilenkin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780809095230
Subjects: Cosmology.; Cosmogony.; Cosmography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What banged, how it banged, and what caused it to bang?; title: The rise and fall of repulsive gravity; title: Creation and its discontents; title: The modern story of genesis; title: The inflationary universe; title: Too good to be wrong; title: Eternal inflation; title: The antigravity stone; title: Eternal inflation; title: The sky has spoken; title: Infinite islands; title: The king lives!; title: Principle of mediocrity; title: The cosmological constant problem; title: Anthropic feuds; title: Mediocrity raised to a principle; title: Theory of everything; title: Before the beginning; title: Did the universe have a beginning?; title: Creation of universes from nothing; title: The end of the world; title: Fire in the equations.