Worlds without end: the many lives of the multiverse ... in which are discussed pre-, early-, and postmodern multiple-worlds cosmologies : the sundry arguments for and against them : the striking peculiarities of their adherents and detractors : the shifting boundaries

'Multiverse' cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others.

While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis - with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory.

Far from invalidating multiverse hypotheses, Rubenstein argues, this interdisciplinary collision actually secures their scientific viability.