Overview
Introduction
What If? Why Us? Why Now?
by Jesse Emspak
Section 1: Undiscovered Worlds
1.1 Parallel Universes
by Max Tegmark
1.2 Extraordinary Claims
by George F. R. Ellis
1.3 The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride
by Cliff Burgess and Fernando Quevedo
Section 2: Explorations
2.1 Cracking Open a Window
by George Musser
2.2 Out of the Darkness
by Georgi Divali
Section 3: Multiple Dimensions
3.1 Looking for Life in the Multiverse
by Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez
3.2 Quantum Gravity in Flatland
by Steven Carlip
3.3 The Universe’s Unseen Dimensions
by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopolous and Georgi Divali
Section 4: Time and Time Again
4.1 Quantum Physics of Time Travel
by David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood
4.2 The Myth of the Beginning of Time
by Gabriele Veneziano
4.3 Been There, Done That
by George Musser
Section 5: Why We Live Now
5.1 The String Theory Landscape
by Raphael Bousso and Joseph Polchinski
5.2 Inconstant Constants
by John D. Barrow and John K. Webb
5.3 The Inflation Debate
by Paul J. Steinhardt