The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos Contributor(s): Greene, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307278123 ISBN-13: 9780307278128 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Cosmology - Science | Physics - Quantum Theory |
Dewey: 530.12 |
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.29" W x 8.04" (0.95 lbs) 464 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |