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The hidden reality : parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Penguin, New York : ©2012Description: xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780141029818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.019 GRE-H
Contents:
1. The bounds of reality: on parallel worlds 2. Endless doppelgangers: the quilted multiverse 3. Eternity and infinity: the inflationary multiverse 4. Unifying nature's laws: on the road to string theory 5. Hovering universes in nearby dimensions: the brane and cyclic multiverses 6. New thinking about an old constant: the landscape multiverse 7. Science and the multiverse: on inference, explanation, and prediction 8. The many worlds of quantum measurement: the quantum multiverse 9. Black holes and holograms: the holographic multiverse 10. Universes, computers, and mathematical reality: the simulated and ultimate multiverses 11. The limits of inquiry: multiverses and the future.
Summary: "The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics -- relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational -- have all led us to consider one or another variety of parallel universe.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The bounds of reality: on parallel worlds 2. Endless doppelgangers: the quilted multiverse 3. Eternity and infinity: the inflationary multiverse 4. Unifying nature's laws: on the road to string theory 5. Hovering universes in nearby dimensions: the brane and cyclic multiverses 6. New thinking about an old constant: the landscape multiverse 7. Science and the multiverse: on inference, explanation, and prediction 8. The many worlds of quantum measurement: the quantum multiverse 9. Black holes and holograms: the holographic multiverse 10. Universes, computers, and mathematical reality: the simulated and ultimate multiverses 11. The limits of inquiry: multiverses and the future.

"The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics -- relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational -- have all led us to consider one or another variety of parallel universe.

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