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Multiverse Scenarios in Cosmology: Classification, Cause, Challenge, Controversy, and Criticism
Ruediger Vaas
Multiverse scenarios in cosmology assume that other universes exist "beyond" our own universe. They are an exciting challenge both for empirical and theoretical research as well as…
The Evolution and Development of the Universe
Clement Vidal, Charles Auffray, Alex H. Blin +19
This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008). Please refer to the preface and introduction f…
Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design?
Ruediger Vaas
Why did the big bang occur, why do the laws and constants of nature as well as the boundary conditions seem so fine-tuned for life, what is the role of intelligence and self-consci…
Dark Energy and Life's Ultimate Future
Ruediger Vaas
The discovery of the present accelerated expansion of space changed everything regarding cosmology and life's ultimate prospects. Both the optimistic scenarios of an ever (but dece…
Time before Time - Classifications of universes in contemporary cosmology, and how to avoid the antinomy of the beginning and eternity of the world
Ruediger Vaas
Did the universe have a beginning or does it exist forever, i.e. is it eternal at least in relation to the past? This fundamental question was a main topic in ancient philosophy of…
The Inverted Big-Bang
Ruediger Vaas
Our universe appears to have been created not out of nothing but from a strange space-time dust. Quantum geometry (loop quantum gravity) makes it possible to avoid the ominous begi…