Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Editors' preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I An overview of the contributions of John Archibald Wheeler
- Part II An historian's tribute to John Archibald Wheeler and scientific speculation through the ages
- Part III Quantum reality: theory
- Part IV Quantum reality: experiment
- Part V Big questions in cosmology
- 18 Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time
- 19 Cosmology and immutability
- 20 Inflation, quantum cosmology, and the anthropic principle
- 21 Parallel universes
- 22 Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects
- 23 A genuinely evolving universe
- 24 Planck-scale models of the universe
- 25 Implications of additional spatial dimensions for questions in cosmology
- Part VI Emergence, life, and related topics
- Appendix A Science and Ultimate Reality Program Committees
- Appendix B Young Researchers Competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty
- Index
21 - Parallel universes
from Part V - Big questions in cosmology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Editors' preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I An overview of the contributions of John Archibald Wheeler
- Part II An historian's tribute to John Archibald Wheeler and scientific speculation through the ages
- Part III Quantum reality: theory
- Part IV Quantum reality: experiment
- Part V Big questions in cosmology
- 18 Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time
- 19 Cosmology and immutability
- 20 Inflation, quantum cosmology, and the anthropic principle
- 21 Parallel universes
- 22 Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects
- 23 A genuinely evolving universe
- 24 Planck-scale models of the universe
- 25 Implications of additional spatial dimensions for questions in cosmology
- Part VI Emergence, life, and related topics
- Appendix A Science and Ultimate Reality Program Committees
- Appendix B Young Researchers Competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty
- Index
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- Science and Ultimate RealityQuantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity, pp. 459 - 491Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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