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What's the Ultimate Question? |
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Distance to the Sun and the Planets |
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Where Did Our Solar System Come From? |
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Where Did the Galaxies Come From? |
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Where Did the Mysterious Microwaves Come From? |
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Where Did the Atoms Come From? |
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4 Our Universe by Numbers |
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Wanted: Precision Cosmology |
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Precision Microwave-Background Fluctuations |
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Precision Galaxy Clustering |
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The Ultimate Map of Our Universe |
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Where Did Our Big Bang Come From? |
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What's Wrong with Our Big Bang? |
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The Gift That Keeps on Giving |
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6 Welcome to the Multiverse |
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Multiverse Halftime Roundup |
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The Collapse of Consensus |
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The Weirdness Can't Be Confined |
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8 The Level III Multiverse |
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The Illusion of Randomness |
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The Joys of Getting Scooped |
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Why Your Brain Isn't a Quantum Computer |
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Subject, Object and Environment |
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Shifting Views: Many Worlds or Many Words? |
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9 Internal Reality, External Reality and Consensus Reality |
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External Reality and Internal Reality |
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The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth |
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Physics: Linking External to Consensus Reality |
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10 Physical Reality and Mathematical Reality |
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The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis |
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What Is a Mathematical Structure? |
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How Can Physical Reality Be Mathematical? |
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Where Are You? (And What Do You Perceive?) |
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12 The Level IV Multiverse |
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Why I Believe in the Level IV Multiverse |
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Exploring the Level IV Multiverse: What's Out There? |
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Implications of the Level IV Multiverse |
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Are We Living in a Simulation? |
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Relation Between the MUH, the Level IV Multiverse and Other Hypotheses |
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Testing the Level IV Multiverse |
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13 Life, Our Universe and Everything |
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How Big Is Our Physical Reality? |
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The Future of Our Universe---How Will It End? |
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The Future of You---Are You Insignificant? |
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Acknowledgments |
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Suggestions for Further Reading |
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