Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The collection of parallel universes that comprise all of reality in some quantum mechanical and cosmological theories.
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- noun physics, cosmology The
hypothetical group of all the possibleuniverses in existence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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# Add multiverse sudo perl - pi - e 's% (universe) $%$1 multiverse%' \
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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BTW, I really dislike the term multiverse, for I prefer to think of there being a universe with multiple spacetime cosmologies.
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For some reason David thinks that the multiverse is the only choice.
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Koonin's appeal to the multiverse is the same copout on first principles as the landscape is, and David Gross constantly makes this point as it applies to the landscape.
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Too many things had their own jargonized label: a world in the multiverse is a "cognate"; a portal to go between them is a "Schwelle"; the Seebecks aren't human, they are Vorpal homunculi; and I'm not even sure what is meant by referring to Aunt Tansy's bathroom as a "Nexus collection point".
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In this astonishing novel, the characters 'actions have unexpected consequences, and nothing in the multiverse is as it first seems ...
The Merlin Conspiracy: Summary and book reviews of The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones. 2003
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A Theory of Everything must have a unique finite model if the problem of contingency, and the potential existence of a multiverse is to be eliminated.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Smolin believes that the need to invoke a multiverse is rooted in the dichotomy between laws and initial conditions in existing theoretical physics, and suggests moving beyond this paradigm.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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The multiverse is still around after Countdown, nothing mentioned what would happen to the multiverse following Final Crisis.
WonderCon 2008: DC Panel Wrap Up | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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But yes, the multiverse is full of potential - if used as something more than a dumping ground for characters or a set up for world-destroying events.
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This third period depends on the idea of multiple or parallel worlds, now currently renamed the ‘multiverse’, a word and theory credited to an obscure PhD thesis of 1957 by Hugh Everett III; unlike the thunderclap of Einstein’s little article of 1905, this idea seems to have made its way through mass culture and into high philosophical speculation in a relatively inconspicuous way, which may well entitle us to ask some questions about its origin.
Fredric Jameson · In Hyperspace · LRB 9 September 2015 Fredric Jameson 2022
thesuperiorbeing commented on the word multiverse
Well, if there's a UNIverse, then there's gotta be something even bigger called the MULTIverse...
March 1, 2008
muamor commented on the word multiverse
Multiverse feels very poetic.
March 1, 2008