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- In 1976, Vilenkin immigrated to the United States as a Jewish refugee, obtaining his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo.
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In 1976, Vilenkin immigrated to the United States as a Jewish refugee, obtaining his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo. His work has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles in the United States, Europe, Soviet Union , and Japan, and in many popular books.
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May 29, 2012 · Alexander Vilenkin: We looked at three possible scenarios—all of which, by the way, were suggested by the ancient Hindus 3,000 years ago. In one scenario, which the Hindus called “the eternal universe,” multiple beginnings are happening in different places.
Vilenkin has interesting things to say on other topics—physical eschatology, for example—, but his treatment of the central themes of fine-tuning and cosmic origins, discussed in this review, will be especially interesting to philosophers of religion interested in cosmological and teleological arguments for a Creator and Designer of the ...
In 2003, the mathematician Arvind Borde, and physicists Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin were able to prove that any universe which has, on average, been expanding throughout its history cannot be infinite in the past, but must have a past spacetime boundary (i.e., a beginning).
Aug 6, 2013 · In fact, in 2003 Arvind Borde, Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin were able to prove that any universe which is, on average, in a state of cosmic expansion cannot be eternal in the past but must ...
Dec 29, 2015 · Apparently Vilenkin believed that the B-V-G Theorem in combination with the evidence from entropy constitutes such a “proof.” Does God exist? Why or why not?