TY - BOOK AU - Kaku,Michio TI - Parallel worlds: the science of alternative universes and our future of the cosmos SN - 9780141014630 PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Cosmology KW - Big bang theory KW - Superstring theories KW - Supergravity N1 - Originally published by Doubleday in 2005; Includes bibliographical references : pages [403]-405) and index; pt. 1; The universe: Baby pictures of the universe --; The paradoxical universe --; The Big Bang --; Inflation and parallel universes. --; pt. 2; The multiverse: Dimensional portals and time travel --; Parallel quantum universes --; M-theory: the mother of all strings --; A designer universe? --; Searching for echoes from the eleventh dimension. --; pt. 3; Escape into hyperspace: The end of everything --; Escaping the universe --; Beyond the multiverse N2 - Sheds new light on discoveries that have revolutionized the field of cosmology and transformed understanding of the universe, offering an explanation of the multiverse M-theory and its implications in terms of the fate of our own universe ER -