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008			140605s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781616149703 (hardcover)
020			_a1616149701 (hardcover)
020			_z9781616149710 (ebook)
020			_z161614971X (ebook)
020			_z9781616140878 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)866615165 _z(OCoLC)866620794 _z(OCoLC)895618167
050	0	0	_aBD511 _b.S74 2014
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100	1		_aStenger, Victor J., _d1935-
245	1	0	_aGod and the multiverse : _bhumanity's expanding view of the cosmos / _cby Victor J. Stenger.
264		1	_aAmherst, New York : _bPrometheus Books, _c2014.
300			_a447 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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.
505	0		_aFrom 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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index.
650		0	_aCosmology.
650		7	_aCosmology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00880600
650		7	_aKosmologie. _0(DE-588)4114294-9 _2gnd
650		7	_aViele-Welten-Deutung. _0(DE-588)4329474-1 _2gnd
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