Publication

2014 - Columbia University Press

Language

English

Word Count

90,000 words, Guess

Page Count

360 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780231527422
  • ISBN-10023152742X
  • Better World Books9780231527422
  • Open LibraryOL29202539M

Classifications

  • LCCQB982.R83 2014eb

Description

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 it seems they have been set just right to allow life to emerge. In their very efforts to sidestep metaphysics, theoretical physicists propose multiverse scenarios that collide with it and even produce counter-theological narratives. Far from invalidating multiverse hypotheses, Rubenstein argues, this interdisciplinary collision actually secures their scientific viability.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the MultiverseColumbia University Press2014-01-01

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