The multiverse hierarchy

Universe or Multiverse?

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-126

  Tegmark, Max ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107050990.009     Document Type: Chapter

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