Our Place in the Vast Universe

@inproceedings{Page2007OurPI,
  title={Our Place in the Vast Universe},
  author={Don N Page},
  year={2007}
}
  • D. Page
  • Published 31 December 2007
  • Physics, Art
Scientists have measured that what we can see of space is about a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion (10^81) times the volume of an average human. Inflationary theory suggests that the entirety of space is vastly larger. Quantum theory suggests that there are very many different copies of space of the same basic kind as ours (same laws of physics). String theory further suggests that there may be many different kinds of space. This whole collection of… 
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