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Universe or multiverse?
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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Pt. I. Overviews
1. Introduction and overview / Bernard Carr
2. Living in the multiverse / Steven Weinberg
3. Enlightenment, knowledge, ignorance, temptation / Frank Wilczek
Pt. II. Cosmology and astrophysics
4. Cosmology and the multiverse / Martin J. Rees
5. anthropic principle revisited / Bernard Carr
6. Cosmology from the top down / Stephen Hawking
7. multiverse hierarchy / Max Tegmark
8. inflationary multiverse / Andrei Linde
9. model of anthropic reasoning : the dark to ordinary matter ratio / Frank Wilczek
10. Anthropic predictions : the case of the cosmological constant / Alexander Vilenkin
11. definition and classification of universes / James D. Bjorken
12. M/string theory and anthropic reasoning / Renata Kallosh
13. anthropic principle, dark energy and the LHC / Savas Dimopoulos and Scott Thomas
Pt. III. Particle physics and quantum theory
14. Quarks, electrons and atoms in closely related universes / Craig J. Hogan
15. fine-tuning problems of particle physics and anthropic mechanisms / John F. Donoghue
16. anthropic landscape of string theory / Leonard Susskind
17. Cosmology and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics / Viatcheslav Mukhanov
18. Anthropic reasoning and quantum cosmology / James B. Hartle
19. Micro-anthropic principle for quantum theory / Brandon Carter
Pt. IV. More general philosophical issues
20. Scientific alternatives to the anthropic principle / Lee Smolin
21. Making predictions in a multiverse : conundrums dangers, coincidences / Anthony Aguirre
22. Multiverses : description, uniqueness and testing / George Ellis
23. Predictions and tests of multiverse theories / Don N. Page
24. Observation selection theory and cosmological fine-tuning / Nick Bostrom
25. Are anthropic arguments, involving multiverses and beyond, legitimate? / William R. Stoeger
26. multiverse hypothesis : a theistic perspective / Robin Collins
27. Living in a simulated universe / John D. Barrow
28. Universes galore : where will it all end? / Paul Davies.
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9780521848411
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