Cosmic Jackpot is a 2007 non-fiction book by world-renowned physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies.
Paul Davies covers many theories regarding existence, the universe, and the possibility of a multiverse.
Cosmic Jackpot differentiates between what the universe is interpreted to be. In the general context, it is regarded as the entirety of matter, energy, and spacetime. Davies discusses the possibility that the universe is infinite as well as the p...
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Cosmic Jackpot is a 2007 non-fiction book by world-renowned physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies.
Paul Davies covers many theories regarding existence, the universe, and the possibility of a multiverse.
Cosmic Jackpot differentiates between what the universe is interpreted to be. In the general context, it is regarded as the entirety of matter, energy, and spacetime. Davies discusses the possibility that the universe is infinite as well as the possibility it is finite. If it is finite, Davies tells of the multiverse argument: that the collective "multiverse" is a combination of possibly infinite universes. He leads the reader through many well-construed reasons for this theory and continues with many other possibilities.
Much like a pencil falling to the ground from its tip in a trade off of symmetry for stability, Davies writes that the Big Bang could have established a complex but stable universe (or multiverse) from the symmetry-breaking as the heat radiation in "space" lowered...
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