Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word

Back to the Multiverse

The One and the Many

Whence the Modern Multiverse?

The Rise of the Dark Lord

Mapping the Multiverse

A Single, Complete Whole

“So Let Us Begin Again …”: Plato’s Timaeus

Reflecting Singularity: The Aristotelian Cosmos

Ancient Openings of Multiplicity

Accident and Infinity: Atomist Configurations of the Kosmoi

Fire and the Phoenix: Stoic Configurations of the Kosmoi

Once More, with Feeling

Navigating the Infinite

Ending the Endless: Thomas Aquinas

End Without End: Nicholas of Cusa

Infinity Unbound: Giordano Bruno

Measuring the Immeasurable

From Infinity to Pluralism: Seventeenth-Century Cosmologies

An Immeasurable Abyss: Immanuel Kant’s Cosmic Symposium

Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two

Let There Be Light

And the Darkness Has Overcome It

The Rise of Inflation

Other Answers: The Return of the Phoenix

Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse

The Quantum Multiverse

Black Holes and Baby Universes

Multiverse of Multiverses (Forever and Ever)

Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion

Which Side Are You On?

The Bullet and the Blunderbuss

Bidden or Unbidden

On the Genealogy of Cosmology

Unscientific Postscribble