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

"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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Greene, Brian, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
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Table of 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.