inference of a multiverse more plausible now: dark flow (The limitations of science)
Roger Penrose? Last I saw he had a full intro to physics back in '07, but I hought his point in that book is to get the reader to some technical proficiency in high energy physics...-His most recent book, a month or two ago, discovers statistical circles in the microwave background which point to a perpetual universe of bangs and crunches. To my mind, things are getting weirder and weirder. 25 years of string theory and now streaming galaxies and circles found by statistical analysis.