A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many. Some cosmologists believe universes are sprouting from one another in an endless geometric progression. Others see a multiverse of island universes. By Dennis Overbye. [New York Times: Science]
Is the universe all that is the case? Or are there worlds beyond our own? Many cosmologists these days contemplate a so-called multiverse of an endless series of big bangs blooming from one another, creating universes without limit, but they are not alone. A variety of modern theories predict a plethora of universes.
