Multiversality

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/193001MaRDI QIDQ2861840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frank Wilczek

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7376

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental physicsinflationary axion cosmologymultiversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Valid ideas that physical reality is vastly larger than human perception of it, and that the perceived part may not be representative of the whole, exist on many levels and have a long history. After a brief general inventory of those ideas and their implications, I consider the cosmological "multiverse" much discussed in recent scientific literature. I review its theoretical and (broadly) empirical motivations, and its disruptive implications for the traditional program of fundamental physics. I discuss the inflationary axion cosmology, which provides an example where firmly rooted, plausible ideas from microphysics lead to a well-characterized "mini-multiverse" scenario, with testable phenomenological consequences.

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