God and the multiverse : humanity's expanding view of the cosmos / by Victor J. Stenger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014Description: 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616149703 (hardcover)
  • 1616149701 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BD511 .S74 2014
Contents:
From myth to science -- Toward the new cosmos -- Beyond unaided human vision -- Glimpses of the unimagined -- Heat, light, and the atom -- The second physics revolution -- Island universes -- A dynamic cosmos -- Nuclear cosmology -- Relics of the Big Bang -- Particles and the cosmos -- Inflation -- Falling up -- Modeling the universe -- The eternal multiverse -- Life and God.
Summary: "Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse--a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. In this comprehensive history of multiverse theory, Victor Stenger reviews the key developments in the history of science that led to the current consensus view of astrophysicists, taking pains to explain essential concepts and discoveries in accessible language. He shows that science's emerging understanding of the multiverse--consisting of trillions upon trillions of galaxies--is fully explicable in naturalistic terms with no need for supernatural forces to explain its origin or ongoing existence. How can conceptions of God, traditional or otherwise, be squared with this new worldview? The author shows how, in the light of science, long-held beliefs will need to undergo major revision or otherwise face eventual extinction."--Publisher description.
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"Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse--a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. In this comprehensive history of multiverse theory, Victor Stenger reviews the key developments in the history of science that led to the current consensus view of astrophysicists, taking pains to explain essential concepts and discoveries in accessible language. He shows that science's emerging understanding of the multiverse--consisting of trillions upon trillions of galaxies--is fully explicable in naturalistic terms with no need for supernatural forces to explain its origin or ongoing existence. How can conceptions of God, traditional or otherwise, be squared with this new worldview? The author shows how, in the light of science, long-held beliefs will need to undergo major revision or otherwise face eventual extinction."--Publisher description.

From myth to science -- Toward the new cosmos -- Beyond unaided human vision -- Glimpses of the unimagined -- Heat, light, and the atom -- The second physics revolution -- Island universes -- A dynamic cosmos -- Nuclear cosmology -- Relics of the Big Bang -- Particles and the cosmos -- Inflation -- Falling up -- Modeling the universe -- The eternal multiverse -- Life and God.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index.

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