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The realization of infinitely many universes in cosmology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2001

RODNEY D. HOLDER
Affiliation:
The Vicarage, Great Wolford, Shipston-on Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5NQ

Abstract

It is shown that, for certain classes of cosmological model which either postulate or give rise to infinitely many universes, only a measure zero subset of the set of possible universes above a given size can in fact be physically realized. It follows that claims to explain the fine tuning of our universe on the basis of such models by appeal to the existence of all possible universes fail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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