| 释义 |
ˈmultiverse
[f. universe by substituting multi- for uni-.]
An alternative suggested for the word universe in order to indicate the absence of order or of a single ruling and guiding power.
1895W. James Will to Believe (1897) 43 Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference,—a moral multiverse, as one might call it, and not a moral universe. 1904Daily News 11 Oct. 3 [Reporting Sir O. Lodge], The only possible alternative was to regard the universe as a result of random chance and capricious disorder, not a cosmos or universe at all, but rather a ‘multiverse’. 1920Chesterton New Jerusalem viii. 163 When I told a distinguished psychologist..that I differed from his view of the universe, he answered, ‘Why universe? Why should it not be a multiverse?’ 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 602/1 It is precisely Mr Powys's ever-present contact with the vital, or spiritual, principles within the universe which enables him to explore with so uncanny a penetration the deeper problems of that comparatively small section of the universe—or as he would say multiverse—which constitutes man. 1959N. N. Holland First Mod. Comedies 128 Out of this ‘pluralistic multiverse’, as Robert Oppenheimer has recently called it. 1975C. L. Burt ESP & Psychol. ii. 34 Modern physics presents us with a heterogeneous multiverse, in place of the homogeneous universe of Newton and Laplace. |