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How it all connects
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All bridges
- Before the Universe and The Nature of Space & Time, 7 theories cross, 7 theories cross
- 1997 / 2010 Holographic Spacetime
- 1995 Thermodynamics of Spacetime
- 2011 / 2017 Verlinde Entropic Gravity
- 1987 Sorkin's Causal Set Program
- 1986 Canonical / Spin-Foam Loop Quantum Gravity
- 1998 / 2007 Mathematical Universe (Level IV)
- 1999 Randall-Sundrum
- Before the Universe and A Theory of Everything, Strings and branes, 2 theories cross
- 1995 M-Theory
- 2003 String Theory Landscape
- Before the Universe and The Origin of Our Universe, Inflation answers both, 14 theories cross
- 2018 Boyle-Finn-Turok CPT Universe
- 1986 Linde's Chaotic Eternal Inflation
- 1982 Vilenkin's Tunneling from Nothing
- 2001 Loop Quantum Big Bounce
- 2001 Ekpyrotic Cyclic Universe
- 2014 Afshordi's Holographic Big Bang
- 1992 Smolin's Cosmological Natural Selection
- 1980 Coleman-De Luccia Bubble Nucleation
- 2025 Delayed Phase Transition Baby Universe
- 1983 Hartle-Hawking No-Boundary
- 1993 Pre-Big Bang (Gasperini-Veneziano)
- 2005 Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)
- 2010 / 2016 Popławski's Einstein-Cartan Torsion
- 2021 / 2024 Boyle-Turok CPT-Symmetric Universe
- The Origin of Our Universe and The Nature of Space & Time, Wavefunction of the universe, 1 theory crosses
- 2001 Loop Quantum Cosmology
- The Origin of Our Universe and The Dark Universe, Hot Big Bang nucleosynthesis, 3 theories cross
- 1998 / 2020 Plain ΛCDM
- 1988 / 1998 Quintessence
- 1983 / 2018 Modern Slow-Roll Inflation
- Black Holes and The Nature of Space & Time, Holography and ER=EPR, 5 theories cross
- 2013 ER = EPR
- 1993 Black Hole Complementarity
- 1993 / 2019 Page Curve and Replica Wormholes
- 1997 / 2010 Holographic Spacetime
- 1986 Canonical / Spin-Foam Loop Quantum Gravity
- The Nature of Space & Time and A Theory of Everything, Quantum gravity, 4 theories cross
- 1995 M-Theory
- 1986 Canonical / Spin-Foam Loop Quantum Gravity
- 1998 Foundational CDT Program
- 1997 / 2010 Holographic Spacetime
- Black Holes and A Theory of Everything, AdS/CFT, fuzzballs, 1 theory crosses
- 2013 ER = EPR
- The Nature of Space & Time and The Dark Universe, Emergent gravity, 2 theories cross
- 2011 / 2017 Verlinde Entropic Gravity
- 1991 / 2004 Phenomenology, Lorentz Tests and the Cosmological Constant
- Black Holes and The Dark Universe, Primordial black holes, 1 theory crosses
- 1974 Primordial Black Hole Evaporation
- Before the Universe and The Dark Universe, 2 theories cross, 2 theories cross
- 2014 Afshordi's Holographic Big Bang
- 1999 Randall-Sundrum
- The Fate of the Universe and The Dark Universe, Dark energy decides the ending, 4 theories cross
- 2003 The Big Rip
- 2002 Dynamical Dark Energy Turnaround
- 2002 / 2003 Phantom Energy
- 1988 / 1998 Quintessence
- Before the Universe and Black Holes, 5 theories cross, 5 theories cross
- 1972 Pathria-Good Black Hole Origin
- 1992 Smolin's Cosmological Natural Selection
- 2014 Afshordi's Holographic Big Bang
- 2025 Delayed Phase Transition Baby Universe
- 2010 / 2016 Popławski's Einstein-Cartan Torsion
- Before the Universe and The Fate of the Universe, Cyclic time and false vacua, 3 theories cross
- 1980 Coleman-De Luccia Bubble Nucleation
- 2005 Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)
- 2001 Ekpyrotic Cyclic Universe