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The hidden reality : parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos / Brian Greene.
Discusses recent discoveries in physics and cosmology to explore a range of multiverse proposals, and examines how the knowledge that some aspects of reality may lie beyond human comprehension might affect scientific progress.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307265630
- ISBN: 0307265633
- Physical Description: xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The bounds of reality: on parallel worlds -- Endless doppelgangers: the quilted miltiverse -- 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. |
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| Subject: | Physics > Philosophy. Quantum theory. General relativity (Physics) Cosmology. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Coldwater Branch | 530.12 GRE (Text) | 35401424801883 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |