The world of many worlds. Physicists in search of other universes

Quantum gravity specialist, cosmic string theory, director of the Institute of Cosmology of the University of Tafts (USA) Alexander Vilenkin, in the best traditions of popular literature, tells how the complex constructions describing the structure and setting the evolution of our universe were born and formed with the main actors of theoretical physics of the XX and XXI centuries. This book, however, is related not only to cosmology, but also to cosmological philosophy. The creative approach to physical constants leads the author to the idea that our universe is one of the many worlds that exist parallel to each other. This idea-the idea of ​​multi-sized-can neither prove nor refuted by observations, but its originality and elegance made it equally attractive for many eminent physicists, and to the same extent for fantasy writers