The idea that we live in a ‘multiverse’ made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has long been considered a possibility.
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A new book explores some of the big questions of why the universe exists and why it seems fine-tuned for life.
If some of the laws of physics were only infinitesimally different, we would simply not exist. It almost looks like the universe itself was built for life. But how can that be?
The idea that our universe is just one in a ‘multiverse’ of parallel universes is increasingly gathering attention from cosmologists. But can we ever test the theory?
The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been proclaimed as many things, from evidence of the Big Bang and gravitational waves to something…
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