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" / Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
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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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.