JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I just wanted to include a few more definitions of “multiverse” after having just read “Parallel Worlds (If human history turns on the tilt of the multiverse, can we still trust our ideas of achievement, progress and morality?)” by Andrew Crumey on Aeon. It’s a very good article.
Multiverse via the Oxford English Dictionary
a. The universe considered as lacking order or a single ruling and guiding power.
1895 W. James in Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 6 10
Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe.
Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe.
1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses iv. 433
Within, without, nowhere and everywhere; Now bedrock of the mighty
Multiverse, And then the thinnest wreath of thinnest cloud Inpalpable.
Within, without, nowhere and everywhere; Now bedrock of the mighty
Multiverse, And then the thinnest wreath of thinnest cloud Inpalpable.
1904 Daily News 11 Oct. 3
[Reporting Sir Oliver Lodge] The only possible alternative was to
regard the universe as a result of random chance and capricious
disorder, not a cosmos or universe at all, but rather a ‘multiverse’.
[Reporting Sir Oliver Lodge] The only possible alternative was to
regard the universe as a result of random chance and capricious
disorder, not a cosmos or universe at all, but rather a ‘multiverse’.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 602/1
It is precisely Mr Powys’s ever-present contact with the vital, or
spiritual, principles within the universe which enables him to
explore..the deeper problems of that comparatively small section of the
universe—or as he would say multiverse—which constitutes man.
It is precisely Mr Powys’s ever-present contact with the vital, or
spiritual, principles within the universe which enables him to
explore..the deeper problems of that comparatively small section of the
universe—or as he would say multiverse—which constitutes man.