| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-354) and index. |
| Contents |
The bounds of reality: on parallel worlds -- Endless doppelgangers: the quilted multiverse -- Eternity and infinity: the inflationary multiverse -- Unifying nature's laws: on the road to string theory -- Hovering universes in nearby dimensions: the brane and cyclic multiverses -- New thinking about an old constant: the landscape multiverse -- Science and the multiverse: on inference, explanation, and prediction -- The many worlds of quantum measurement: the quantum multiverse -- Black holes and holograms: the holographic multiverse -- Universes, computers, and mathematical reality: the simulated and ultimate multiverses -- 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. |
| Subject |
Physics -- Philosophy.
|
|
Physics -- Philosophy. |
|
Quantum theory.
|
|
Quantum theory. |
|
General relativity (Physics)
|
|
General relativity (Physics) |
|
Cosmology.
|
|
Cosmology. |
| ISBN |
9780307265630 |
|
0307265633 |
|
