Brian Randolph Greene
[1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American
theoretical physicist,
mathematician, and
string theorist. He has been a
professor at
Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the
World Science Festivalsince co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on
mirror symmetry, relating two different
Calabi–Yau manifolds(concretely, relating the
conifold to one of its
orbifolds). He also described the
flop transition, a mild form of
topology change, showing that topology in
string theory can change at the conifold point.
Here is a
link to a talk by him about the universe - or rather the multiverse.
I like this idea. It seems plausible.
My question: Does String Theory allow the number of universes to correspond to the number of positive integers or the number of real numbers between 0 and 1, or an even greater number?
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