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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications
Contributor(s): Deutsch, David (Author)
ISBN: 014027541X     ISBN-13: 9780140275414
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.15  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1998
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Annotation: Deutsch's pioneering and accessible book integrates recent advances in theoretical physics and computer science to explain and connect many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers, and physics of time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Science | Physics - Quantum Theory
Dewey: 530.01
LCCN: 97006171
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.35" W x 7.99" (0.72 lbs) 400 pages
 
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A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse - as referenced in the film "Avengers: Endgame"

For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes "parallel" to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to achieving a new worldview, one which synthesizes the theories of evolution, computation, and knowledge with quantum physics. Considered jointly, these four strands of explanation reveal a unified fabric of reality that is both objective and comprehensible, the subject of this daring, challenging book.

The Fabric of Reality explains and connects many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers (which work by effectively collaborating with their counterparts in other universes), the physics of time travel, the comprehensibility of nature and the physical limits of virtual reality, the significance of human life, and the ultimate fate of the universe. Here, for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert, is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.