Multiverses: Description, uniqueness and testing

Universe or Multiverse?

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 387-410

  Ellis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107050990.024     Document Type: Chapter

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