Parallel Worlds: Creation, Superstrings, and a Journey Through Hi

Contents: Part I. The Universe. 1. Baby pictures of the Universe; 2. The Paradoxical Universe; 3. The Big Bang; 4. Inflation and Parallel Universes. Part. II. The Multiverse. 5. Dimensional Portals and Time Travel; 6. Parallel Quantum Universes; 7. M-Theory: The Mother of All Strings; 8. A Designer Universe?; 9. Searching for Echoes from the Eleveth Dimension. Part III. Escape into Hiperspace. 10. The End of Everything; 11. Escaping the Universe; 12. Beyond the Universe.