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Universe or Multiverse - Bernard Carr

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Author(s): Bernard Carr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date : 2007
Pages : 519
Format : PDF
OCR : Yes
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 978-0-521-84841-1


Contents

Part I Overviews 1
1 Introduction and overview 3
Bernard Carr
2 Living in the multiverse 29
Steven Weinberg
3 Enlightenment, knowledge, ignorance, temptation 43
Frank Wilczek

Part II Cosmology and astrophysics 55
4 Cosmology and the multiverse 57
Martin J. Rees
5 The Anthropic Principle revisited 77
Bernard Carr
6 Cosmology from the top down 91
S. W. Hawking
7 The multiverse hierarchy 99
Max Tegmark
8 The inflationary multiverse 127
Andrei Linde
9 A model of anthropic reasoning: the dark to
ordinary matter ratio 151
Frank Wilczek
10 Anthropic predictions: the case of the cosmological constant 163
Alexander Vilenkin
11 The definition and classification of universes 181
James D. Bjorken
12 M/string theory and anthropic reasoning 191
Renata Kallosh
13 The anthropic principle, dark energy and the LHC 211
Savas Dimopoulos and Scott Thomas

Part III Particle physics and quantum theory 219
14 Quarks, electrons and atoms in closely related universes 221
Craig J. Hogan
15 The fine-tuning problems of particle physics and anthropic mechanisms 231
John F. Donoghue
16 The anthropic landscape of string theory 247
Leonard Susskind
17 Cosmology and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics 267
V. F. Mukhanov
18 Anthropic reasoning and quantum cosmology 275
James B. Hartle
19 Micro-anthropic principle for quantum theory 285
Brandon Carter

Part IV More general philosophical issues 321
20 Scientific alternatives to the anthropic principle 323
Lee Smolin
21 Making predictions in a multiverse: conundrums, dangers, coincidences 367
Anthony Aguirre
22 Multiverses: description, uniqueness and testing 387
George Ellis
23 Predictions and tests of multiverse theories 411
Don N. Page
24 Observation selection theory and cosmological fine-tuning 431
Nick Bostrom
25 Are anthropic arguments, involving multiverses and beyond, legitimate? 445
William R. Stoeger, S. J.
26 The multiverse hypothesis: a theistic perspective 459
Robin Collins
27 Living in a simulated universe 481
John D. Barrow
28 Universes galore: where will it all end? 487
Paul Davies

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