The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greene (Author)
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Quantum Theory

The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?

There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and even a multiverse made purely of math--and reveals the reality hidden within each.

Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.

• Rank: #6704 in Books
• Published on: 2011-11-01
• Released on: 2011-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .94" w x 5.17" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

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Description #2 by Harvbooks:

"New book, From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos: his most thrilling and accessible book to date--a state-of-the-art tour of the cutting-edge science that is changing the way we see our world. In recent years, a growing body of work--based on the principles of quantum mechanics, cosmology, and string theory--has been steadily converging around a proposal that our universe is actually only one of many universes. In fact, research supports a number of different models of parallel universes in which our world appears: for instance, as one of many ""bubbles"" in a rapidly growing bath of universes, or as one of numerous cosmic slabs separated from one another through additional spatial dimensions. Brian Greene, with his trademark impartiality, crystal-clear prose, and inspired use of analogy, opens up the strange worlds of the ""multiverse,"" taking us on a journey grounded firmly in science, and limited only by our ima ginations."

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