Timeline for Undergraduate-friendly reading material on the multiverse?
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| Mar 12, 2011 at 3:40 | comment | added | Tommy Hinrichs | I place the popular physics books I've read as follows: Most to Least Thought Provoking: Elegant Universe, Black Holes and Time Warps, Fabric of the Cosmos, Brief History of Time Most to Least Accessible: Elegant Universe, Brief History of Time, Fabric of the Cosmos, Black Holes and Time Warps I can't comment on Greene's latest as I haven't read it, but I can say that I've really enjoyed his work, and I think it is likely to be at the appropriate level for what you desire. | |
| Mar 1, 2011 at 15:26 | comment | added | Luboš Motl | Thanks, @Gordon, it's great that you mentioned Vilenkin's book I omitted by pure incompleteness of my brain activity then. Vilenkin's book was BTW translated to Czech by a friend of mine, and of course I had some fun interactions with Vilenkin - and even more friendly ones with a postdoc of him, Delia P. ;-) | |
| Feb 28, 2011 at 0:58 | comment | added | Gordon | @Ted--Vilenkin's popular book, "Many Worlds in One" may be more accessible than the arxiv paper Lubos mentioned. I think any of Greene's three books are likely the best bets for the level of course you are teaching. Alan Guth's book, "The Inflationary Universe" was well written as well, but is not about the multiverse. Jorges Luis Borges" short story, "The Garden of the Forking Paths" is a must for the many worlds theory of Everett ( again different from multiverse). | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 8:01 | history | edited | Luboš Motl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 18, 2011 at 18:18 | comment | added | Ted Bunn | Thanks! This is very helpful. Based on my past experience, I'm dubious about your belief that the scholarly literature is accessible to first-year students, but I could be wrong. I'll examine some papers and think about it. | |
| Jan 18, 2011 at 16:47 | history | answered | Luboš Motl | CC BY-SA 2.5 |