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The number of the heavens a history of the multiverse and the quest to understand the cosmos
"One of the most controversial, cutting-edge ideas in cosmology-the possibility that there exist multiple parallel universes-in fact has a long history. Tom Siegfried reminds us that the size and number of the heavens have been contested since ancient times. His story offers deep lessons about...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press ;
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Out of chaos, a multiverse
- Robert Grosseteste's multiverse
- Aristotle versus the atomists
- The condemnation of 1277
- Condemnation aftermath
- Cusa and Copernicus
- Wandering in immensity
- Planets and people
- Island universes
- E pluribus universe
- Many quantum worlds
- Anthropic cosmology
- Brane worlds
- Defining the multiverse.