000310615 000__ 01906cam\a22003494a\4500 000310615 001__ 310615 000310615 005__ 20210513113548.0 000310615 008__ 050915s2006\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000310615 010__ $$a 2005027057 000310615 020__ $$a0809095238 (alk. paper) 000310615 020__ $$a9780809095230 (alk. paper) 000310615 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm61660278 000310615 035__ $$a310615 000310615 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dC#P$$dVP@$$dYDXCP$$dIG#$$dOCLCQ$$dBTCTA 000310615 042__ $$apcc 000310615 049__ $$aISEA 000310615 05000 $$aQB981$$b.V526 2006 000310615 08200 $$a523.1$$222 000310615 1001_ $$aVilenkin, A.$$q(Alexander) 000310615 24510 $$aMany worlds in one :$$bthe search for other universes /$$cAlex Vilenkin. 000310615 250__ $$a1st ed. 000310615 260__ $$aNew York :$$bHill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,$$c2006. 000310615 300__ $$aviii, 235 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000310615 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index. 000310615 5050_ $$aWhat 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. 000310615 650_0 $$aCosmology. 000310615 650_0 $$aCosmogony. 000310615 650_0 $$aCosmography. 000310615 85200 $$bgen$$hQB981$$i.V526$$i2006 000310615 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027057.html 000310615 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005027057-b.html 000310615 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005027057-d.html 000310615 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:310615$$pGLOBAL_SET 000310615 980__ $$aBIB 000310615 980__ $$aBOOK 000310615 994__ $$aC0$$bISE