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" Many worlds in one : "
Alex Vilenkin
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BL
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659840
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| Main Entry
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Vilenkin, A., (Alexander)
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| Title & Author
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Many worlds in one : : the search for other universes /\ Alex Vilenkin
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1st ed
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New York :: Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, 2006
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viii, 235 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0809095238 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index
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| Contents
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What banged, how it banged, and what caused it to bang? -- The rise and fall of repulsive gravity -- Creation and its discontents -- The modern story of genesis -- The inflationary universe -- Too good to be wrong -- Eternal inflation -- The antigravity stone -- Runaway inflation -- The sky has spoken -- Infinite islands -- The king lives! -- Principle of mediocrity -- The cosmological constant problem -- Anthropic feuds -- Mediocrity raised to a principle -- A theory of everything -- Before the beginning -- Did the universe have a beginning? -- Creation of universes from nothing -- The end of the world -- Fire in the equations
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Cosmology
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Cosmogony
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Cosmography
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523.1
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QB981.V526 2006
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