Worlds without end : the many lives of the multiverse ... in which are discussed pre-, early-, and postmodern multiple-worlds cosmologies : the sundry arguments for and against them : the striking peculiarities of their adherents and detractors : the shifting boundaries of science, philosophy, and religion : and the stubbornly persistent question of whether creation has been "designed" /
Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for their recent appearance. One concerns the so-called fine-tuning of the universe: nature's constants are so delicately calibrated that i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: How to avoid the G-word
- A single, complete whole
- Ancient openings of multiplicity
- Navigating the infinite
- Measuring the immeasurable
- Bangs, bubbles, and branes: atomists versus stoics, take two
- Ascending to the ultimate multiverse
- Unendings: on the entanglement of science and religion.