megaverse
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megaverse (plural megaverses)
- (physics) A theoretical higher-order universe that contains multiple (possibly an infinite number of) pocket universes within it.
- 2010, James F. Molben, Atheism: Trendy, Chic and Scientifically Misguided, →ISBN, page 28:
- Several of the more interesting variants of string theory propose that our entire universe is one simple three-dimensional membrane existing within a higher-order bulk universe, or megaverse.
- 2010, Nick Huggett, Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, →ISBN:
- An important part of Susskind's picture is that each of the pocket universes is expanding like a bubble, so you can't get out of one, but the whole megaverse also expands, so the bubbles don't collide.
- 2013, Patrick Cusick, Universis: Big Bangs and Universal Beings, →ISBN, page 10:
- As there is no evidence of an unconditional singularity anywhere it is highly likely that there are other universes and even “mother” megaverses of infinite proportions.