multiverse

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It worked for a while, before it collapsed as the multiverse was suffering through way too much turmoil to hold up.

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  • Fresh holes were being carved in the multiverse, exposing the adjacent worlds. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • Navigating through the multiverse was just this side of impossible. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • Susskind's real topic, in his first book for a popular audience, is the multiverse--the entire range of possible universes posited by the "many worlds" variant of quantum theory Susskind notes that several critical parameters of physics seem to be so finely tuned that even a minor change in them would turn the universe into one utterly hostile to living things. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • Our universe is only one of many regions of the landscape, or multiverse, as SF writers like to call it Susskind even offers a sort of humorous SF story of his own, of a world of intelligent fish trying to explain their underwater world in terms of an "ickthropic principle." —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • We quickly learn that henchmen of the evil king of England are searching for Oonagh and the albino boy, whose blood holds the key to the fate of the entire multiverse--and it is soon clear that they are the same enemies who have pursued her from her Yorkshire home. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
 

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