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...

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