Worlds Without End : : The Many Lives of the Multiverse / / Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
"Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis-with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, a...
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Rubenstein, Mary-Jane, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Worlds Without End : The Many Lives of the Multiverse / Mary-Jane Rubenstein. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (360 p.) : 12 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word -- 1. A Single, Complete Whole -- 2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity -- 3. Navigating the Infinite -- 4. Measuring the Immeasurable -- 5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two -- 6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse -- Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis-with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory.Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane 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. For some thinkers, these "fine-tunings" are evidence of the existence of God; for others, however, and for most physicists, "God" is an insufficient scientific explanation. Hence the allure of the multiverse: if all possible worlds exist somewhere, then like monkeys hammering out Shakespeare, one universe is bound to be suitable for life. Of course, this hypothesis replaces God with an equally baffling article of faith: the existence of universes beyond, before, or after our own, eternally generated yet forever inaccessible to observation or experiment. 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. We may therefore be witnessing a radical reconfiguration of physics, philosophy, and religion in the modern turn to the multiverse. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Cosmology Popular works. Cosmology. SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231156639 https://doi.org/10.7312/rube15662 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231527422 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231527422/original |
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