Multiverse

String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought

Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.

Scientific American

Parallel Universes Could Be Hospitable to Life, Scientists Say

New research conducted by scientists from Durham University, Western Sydney University, and the University of Western Australia has demonstrated that other universes may in fact harbor the conditions to support life — if they exist.

Newsweek

Stephen Hawking’s (Almost) Last Paper: Putting an End to the Beginning of the Universe

In his last paper on cosmology, Stephen Hawking and a younger colleague attacked cosmic inflation and its discontents.

Science

Making Sense of Many Universes

Q&A with theoretical physicist John Donoghue.

Knowable Magazine

Universes With No Weak Force Might Still Have Stars and Life

An alternate cosmos could do without one of the fundamental forces, physicists say.

Science News

Scientific Theory and the Multiverse Madness

An increasing number of theoretical physicists think that our universe is only one among infinitely many — but this speculation is not based on sound logic, says Sabine Hossenfelder.

13.7: Cosmos & Culture

The Case for Cosmic Pantheism

In multiverse cosmologies, we find a creative principle that is the ever-evolving universe itself. This sort of theology, which identifies God with the physical universe, is a position historically known as pantheism.

Nautilus

Martin Rees on Speculative Physics

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the size of the physical universe, reconciling the physics of the very small with the physics of the very large, and more.

Big Questions Online

Multiverse – Where Do We Go from Here?

What is the latest on the theory of the multiverse? A new interview series asks world-famous physicists.

Closer To Truth

Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology

Physicists and cosmologists are closing in on how the universe operates at its very core. But even with powerful telescopes and particle accelerators pushed nearly to their limits, experimenters struggle to keep up as theoreticians march forward, leaving grand theories untested.

World Science Festival

A Cold War Among Cosmologists Turns Hot

Two camps of theorists are bickering in public — with one saying the others’ ideas don’t even qualify as science.

The Atlantic

Evil Triumphs in These Multiverses, and God Is Powerless

How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem of evil.

Nautilus

Stars Burning Strangely Make Life in the Multiverse More Likely

Supporters of the multiverse often cite a specific reaction in stars that seems tuned for life, making our universe improbable — but now there’s a new idea.

New Scientist

In the Beginning

Cosmology has been on a long, hot streak, racking up one imaginative and scientific triumph after another. Is it over?

Aeon