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Single Idea 395

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 10. Multiverse ]

Full Idea

One might indeed be puzzled whether, just as the world about us exists, nothing prevents there being others as well, certainly more than one, though not an unlimited number

Gist of Idea

It seems possible that there exists a limited number of other worlds apart from this one

Source

Aristotle (On the Heavens [c.336 BCE], 274a26)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'On the Heavens I and II', ed/tr. Leggatt,Stuart [Aris and Phillips 1995], p.71

The 4 ideas with the same theme [there exists a vast multitude of varied universes]:

395 It seems possible that there exists a limited number of other worlds apart from this one [Aristotle]
14036 There are endless cosmoi, some like and some unlike this one [Epicurus]
21111 It seems likely that cosmic inflation is eternal, and this would make a multiverse inevitable [Krauss]
22946 The multiverse is distinct time-series, as well as spaces [Le Poidevin]