Title:
The hidden reality : parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos / Brian Greene.
Author:
Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Call Number:
QC6 .G6885 2011
Abstract:
"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.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780307265630
Physical Description:
xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 multiverse -- The limits of inquiry: multiverses and the future.
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