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The hidden reality : parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos / Brian Greene.

By: Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.Description: xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780307265630; 0307265633.Subject(s): Physics -- Philosophy | Quantum theory | General relativity (Physics) | CosmologyDDC classification: 530.12
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.
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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.

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.

"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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