Multiverses of the past
Multiverses of the past
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过去的多重宇宙
DOI：
10.1002/asna.200911227
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
V. Trimble
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作者：
V. Trimble
2000多年前，伊壁鸠鲁教导说，存在无数个其他世界，无论是与我们的世界相似还是不同，而亚里士多德则教导说，不存在任何其他世界。目前这两种假设都无法被证伪，而当前多元宇宙的某些版本可能永远无法被证伪，这导致了偶尔有人声称这不是科学！ （几个世纪以来对宇宙学的常见抱怨）。将 cosmos 或 world 或 Universe 定义为您和大多数知识渊博的同时代人都承认是其一部分的最大结构。这要从古埃及绘画、希腊神话和《创世记》中以地球为中心的小世界开始，神可以在一天之内环游这些世界，而人类则可以在一代人的时间内环游这些世界。这些星系往往会膨胀并成为以太阳为中心而不是以地为中心（时间上不太单调），并且随后被各种类太阳恒星及其自己的行星的组合所继承。有限与无限组合的争论持续了几个世纪，然后是银河系是否独特的问题（因此岛屿宇宙是有意义的，即使你反对这个想法）。今天，人们认为我们原则上可以与整个 4 维时空及其所有内容进行交流。除此之外是超过四个维度的现代多重宇宙、顺序（循环或振荡）、分层或非通信实体。每一个都有更古老的类似物，并且在每个讨论这些想法的环境中，都有坚定的支持者和坚定的反对者，这里探讨了其中的一些想法。因为天文学观测已经坚定地解决了一些早期的争议，有利于许多星系和许多具有行星的恒星，所以其他世界现在只能指其他行星，如地球或其他宇宙。重点是后者。 © 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co. KGaA，魏因海姆。
More than 2000 years ago, Epicurus taught that there are an infinite number of other worlds, both like and unlike ours, and Aristotle taught that there are none. Neither hypothesis can currently be falsified, and some versions of current multiverses perhaps never can be, which has contributed to occasional claims that this isn't science! (a common complaint about cosmology for centuries). Define cosmos , or world , or universe to mean the largest structure of which you and the majority of knowledgeable contemporaries will admit to being a part. This begins with the small, earth-centered worlds of ancient Egyptian paintings, Greek mythology, and Genesis, which a god could circumnavigate in a day and humans in a generation. These tend to expand and become helio- rather than geo-centric (not quite monotonically in time) and are succeeded by various assemblages of sun-like stars with planets of their own. Finite vs. infinite assemblages are debated and then the issue of whether the Milky Way is unique (so that island universes made sense, even if you were against the idea) for a couple of centuries. Today one thinks as a rule of the entire 4-dimensional space-time we might in principle communicate with and all its contents. Beyond are the modern multi-verses, sequential (cyclic or oscillating), hierarchical, or non-communicating entities in more than four dimensions. Each of these has older analogues, and, in every milieu where the ideas have been discussed, there have been firm supporters and firm opponents, some of whose ideas are explored here. Because astronomical observations have firmly settled some earlier disputes in favor of very many galaxies and very many stars with planets, other worlds can now refer only to other planets like Earth or to other universes. The focus is on the latter. © 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co. KGaA, Weinheim.