Further Reading

Chapter 1: Elvis Lives

Garriga, Jaume and Vilenkin, Alexander, ‘Many Worlds in One’, Physical Review, vol. D 64, no. 043511,26 July 2001. Also available at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0102010

Knobe, Joshua, Olum, Ken and Vilenkin, Alexander, ‘Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 57, no. 1, March 2006: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0302071

Linde, Andrei, ‘The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe’, Scientific American, November 1994

Tegmark, Max, ‘Parallel Universes’, Scientific American, May 2003, p. 31.

Chapter 2: Cosmic Computer

Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media Incorporated, 2002. Also available online at: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html

For more information about Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research and A New Kind of Science go to: http://www.stephenwolfram.com http://www.wolfram.com http://www.wolframscience.com

Chapter 3: Yoyo Universe

Khoury, Justin, Ovrut, Burt, Steinhardt, Paul and Turok, Neil, ‘The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang’, Physical Review, vol. D 64, no. 123522, 2001: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0103239

Khoury, Justin, Ovrut, Burt, Sieberg, Steinhardt, Paul and Turok, Neil, ‘From Big Crunch to Big Bang’, Physical Review, vol. D 65, no. 086007, April 2002: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0108187

See also: http://www.feynman.princeton.edu/~steinh

Chapter 4: Keeping It Real

Schulman, Lawrence S., Time’s Arrows and Quantum Measurement, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Chapter 5: No Time Like the Present

Hartle, James, ‘The Physics of “Now”’, American Journal of Physics, vol. 73, p. 101, 2005.Also available at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0403001

Chapter 6: God’s Number

Chaitin, Gregory, Conversations with a Mathematician, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

––, Exploring Randomness, Springer-Verlag, 2001.

––, The Limits of Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, 1998. ––, The Unknowable, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Gregory Chaitin’s websites (mirror images) are at: http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin and http://www.cs.auckland. ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin

Chapter 7: Patterns in the Void

Law, Stephen, The Philosophy Gym, Headline, 2003.

Stenger, Victor, The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?, Prometheus Books, 2006: http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger

––, Has Science Found God?, Prometheus Books, 2003.

––, Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes, Prometheus Books, 2000.

Wilczek, Frank, ‘The Cosmic Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter’, Scientific American, vol. 243, no. 6, December 1980, p. 82.

Zee, A., Fearful Symmetry, Princeton University Press, 1999.

Chapter 8: Mass Medium

See: http://www.calphysics.org

Chapter 9: An Alien at My Table

See: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/section-12.10 http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/notes-section-12.10-text http://www.wolfram.com http://www.wolframscience.com

Chapter 10: The Billboard in the Sky

Hsu, Stephen and Zee, Anthony, ‘Message in the Sky’. See: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510102

Chapter 11: The Never-ending Days of Being Dead

Tipler, Frank, The Physics of Immortality, Macmillan, 1994.

Webb, Stephen, If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens – Where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life, Copernicus, 2002.