God and the Multiverse
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God and the Multiverse

Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos

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eBook - ePub

God and the Multiverse

Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos

About this book

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. 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 terminology. The author 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 long-held beliefs will need to undergo major revision or otherwise face eventual extinction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue
  8. Preface
  9. 1. From Myth to Science
  10. 2. Toward the New Cosmos
  11. 3. Beyond Unaided Human Vision
  12. 4. Glimpses of the Unimagined
  13. 5. Heat, Light, and the Atom
  14. 6. The Second Physics Revolution
  15. 7. Island Universes
  16. 8. A Dynamic Cosmos
  17. 9. Nuclear Cosmology
  18. 10. Relics of the Big Bang
  19. 11. Particles and the Cosmos
  20. 12. Inflation
  21. 13. Falling Up
  22. 14. Modeling the Universe
  23. 15. The Eternal Multiverse
  24. 16. Life and God
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. About the Author
  28. Index