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Many worlds in one : the search for other universes / Alex Vilenkin.

by Vilenkin, A. (Alexander)

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New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027057.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005027057-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005027057-d.html

0809095238 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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