The book of universes: exploring the limits of the cosmos

Being in the right place at the right time. Two men walking ; Funny things, universes ; The importance of place ; Aristotle's spherical universe ; Ptolemy's "Heath Robinson" universe ; Copernican revolutions

The earnestness of being important. Special times and special places ; Democratic laws ; The changing universe ; The nebular hypothesis ; Life in an Edwardian universe ; The decaying universe ; Karl Schwarzschild: the man who knew too much

Einstein's universes. Completing a Copernican vision ; Einstein's insight ; A digression ; The creation of Einstein's universe of motionless matter ; The second universe: de Sitter's universe of matterless motion ; Friedmann's universes of matter in motion ; Lemaître's universes ; The universe of Einstein and de Sitter ; Tolman's oscillating universe ; Lemaître and Tolman's kinky universe ; Milne's universe (and Newton's universes)

Unexpected universes: the Rococo period. Fractal universes ; Dr. Kasner's universe ; Dirac's universe

where gravity decays ; Einstein and Rosen's undulating universe

Something completely different. A Swiss-cheese universe ; Perturbed universes ; Schrödinger's universe ; Gödel's spinning universe

The steady statesmen come and go with a bang. A universe that always was, is and is to come ; A table-top universe ; The electric universe ; Hot universes

Universes, warts and all. Turbulent universes ; Distorted universes: from one to nine ; Smooth universes and a new observational window ; Chaotic universes ; Mixmaster universes ; Magnetic universes ; The universes of Brans and Dicke ; Matter-antimatter universes

The beginning for beginners. Singular universes ; Which universes are singular? ; Cold and tepid universes ; An unexpectedly simpler universe ; And a unified way of thinking

Brave new worlds. Asymmetric universes ; Problem universes ; Inflationary universes ; Chaotic inflationary universes ; Eternal inflationary universes ; Suddenly, the universe seems simpler again ; The many universes run out of control

Post-modern universes. Random universes ; Probably universes ; Anthropic universes ; Possible universes ; Home-made universes ; Naturally selected universes ; Fake universes ; Universes where nothing is original ; Boltzmann's universe

Fringe universes. Wrap-around universes ; Quantum universes ; A self-creating universe ; Colliding universes ; The dying of the light ; Hyperuniverses

The runaway universes. The best-buy universe ; The preposterous universe ; The puzzling universe.