Contemporary History of Cosmology and the Controversy over the Multiverse
@article{Kragh2009ContemporaryHO, title={Contemporary History of Cosmology and the Controversy over the Multiverse}, author={H. Kragh}, journal={Annals of Science}, year={2009}, volume={66}, pages={529 - 551} }
Summary Cosmology has always been different from other areas of the natural sciences. Although an observationally supported standard model of the universe emerged in the 1960s, more speculative models and conceptions continued to attract attention. During the last decade, ideas of multiple universes (the ‘multiverse’) based on anthropic reasoning have become very popular among cosmologists and theoretical physicists. This had led to a major debate within the scientific community of the… Expand
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