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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
B Greene |
ISBN: | 9780141029818 0141029811 |
OCLC Number: | 757147066 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Allen Lane, 2011. |
Awards: | Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 |
Description: | xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Bounds of reality : on parallel worlds -- Endless Doppelgängers : the quilted multiverse -- Eternity and infinity : the inflationary multiverse -- Unifying nature's laws : on the road to Strong 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 -- 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 -- Limits of inquiry : multiverses and the future. |
Responsibility: | Brian Greene. |
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Every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable, mind-expanding realities -- Oliver Sacks The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse and will open up many people's eyes -- John Gribbin If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book * New York Times Book Review * Exciting and rewarding ... captures and engages the imagination ... Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas * New York Times * Brian Greene's book The Hidden Reality is a tour de force of one of the most controversial areas of modern science - the possibility that there are multiple universes... Greene's ability as a populariser has matured with each new publication and this latest offering is his best yet -- Alastair Gunn * Sky at Night * Read more...

