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Roger Joseph Boscovich
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quoteRoger Joseph Boscovich suggested that there might be other kinds of things different from or similar to ours that exist in an infinite space that has no communication with our own space and induces no relation of distance.
claimRoger Joseph Boscovich proposed the existence of multiple material universes occupying the same space, separated such that they are perfectly independent and unable to detect one another.
claimRoger Joseph Boscovich's theories foreshadowed modern cosmological concepts, including extra space dimensions, hidden sectors of matter that do not interact with ordinary matter, and multiverse scenarios.
claimRoger Joseph Boscovich suggested that multiple universes could exist in a time situated outside of our own eternity.
claimRoger Joseph Boscovich speculated that matter consists of atoms that act as centers of both attractive and repulsive forces, in addition to interacting gravitationally.
accountRoger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787) was a Jesuit priest, scientist, philosopher, and poet who taught at the Collegium Romanum and the University of Padua and played a major role in founding the Brera Observatory near Milan.
claimIn a work published after his death, Roger Joseph Boscovich considered the possibility of a sequence of similar universes, some of which vary significantly in size compared to others.
referenceIn his 1758 work Philosophiae naturalis theoria, Roger Joseph Boscovich proposed that bodies could exist in the sun and stars that grow and live without injury to their organic structure.