The Hidden Reality

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Greene, Brian 저자(글)

Vintage · 2011년 11월 01일

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Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?

There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and even a multiverse made purely of math--and reveals the reality hidden within each.

Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.

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저자(글) Greene, Brian

Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University, where he is professor of physics and mathematics. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than thirty countries, and on all seven continents, and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. His first book, The Elegant Universe, was a national best seller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, was also a best seller. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.

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• Preface	p. vii
  The Bounds of Reality: On Parallel Worlds	p. 3
  Endless Doppelg?gers: The Quilted Multiverse	p. 11
  Eternity and Infinity: The Inflationary Multiverse	p. 43
  Unifying Nature's Laws: On the Road to String Theory	p. 83
  Hovering Universes in Nearby Dimensions: The Brane and Cyclic Multiverses	p. 119
  New Thinking About an Old Constant: The Landscape Multiverse	p. 146
  Science and the Multiverse: On Inference, Explanation, and Prediction	p. 188
  The Many Worlds of Quantum Measurement: The Quantum Multiverse	p. 217
  Black Holes and Holograms: The Holographic Multiverse	p. 272
  Universes, Computers, and Mathematical Reality: The Simulated and Ultimate Multiverses	p. 314
  The Limits of Inquiry: Multiverses and the Future	p. 353
  Notes	p. 371
  Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 417
  Index	p. 421
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ISBN	9780307278128 ( 0307278123 )
발행(출시)일자	2011년 11월 01일
쪽수	464쪽
크기	134 * 204 * 24 mm / 431 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어