Title: The Universe Next Door; Author: New Scientist; Publisher: John Murray; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 499Are the principles explaining the cosmic home's creation and functioning vital for our continued existence? How would our planet be sans its lunar satellite, if the dinosaurs continued to roam around, or humans didn't exist or did without bodies or suddenly get wiped out? He, however, notes that thinking about them can amount to more than "amusing speculation". "These kinds of questions are valuable because they force us to abandon basic assumptions about how the universe works. Physics theory postulates a multiverse, where every possible world exists and there are infinite versions of all of us.

Source: Economic Times November 28, 2017 05:37 UTC