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Methodology. --- Anthropic principle. --- Selectivity (Psychology) --- Observation (Scientific method) --- Anthropic cosmological principle --- Cosmology --- Teleology --- Philosophy --- Research --- Attention, Selective --- Selective attention --- Selective perception --- Cognition --- Human information processing --- Perception --- Science --- Methodology --- Metaphysics --- Humanities Methodology

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What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation - such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more - and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.

Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- Space and time. --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Popular science, time, mystery of time, mathematical universe, space-time, quantum, delayed choice, Bell's inequality, wave function, the brain's perception of time, saccades, anthropic principle.

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The multiverse is a concept that acknowledges the existence of a multiplicity of worlds or universes. The designs of these universes do not have to be the same as our universe, but we have no clear view of what the “other” designs might be. It is suspected that they can obey different laws of physics and different constants of physics, which further implies different chemistry, biology, and life. Some say that the universes within the multiverse allow for different mathematics or even for different metamathematical logic. This book discusses most of the above aspects of the multiverse concept starting with the philosophy, through all the mathematical and physical subtleties, finally exploring the origin of life and consciousness. This book provides a satisfying intellectual exploration of front-edge advances in contemporary cosmology.

multiverse --- Leibniz --- other worlds --- multiverse levels --- habitability --- stars --- quantum cosmology --- origin of the universe --- time reversal symmetry --- planets --- life --- varying constants --- anthropic principle --- multiverse entanglement --- multiverse tests --- mass extinctions --- string theory --- string landscape --- dark energy --- creation from nothing --- soft entry --- quantum gravity --- Wheeler-de Witt-equation --- Bohm-like interpretation --- volume-quantisation --- space atoms --- information storage and transfer --- philosophy of multiverse --- categories of multiverses --- different physics universes --- superstring multiverse --- dark multiverse --- universe-antiuniverse pair creation --- multiverse habitability: stars, planets, life, consciousness --- falsifiability of multiverses