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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications Paperback - 1998
by Deutsch, David
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Deutsch's pioneering and accessible book integrates recent advances in theoretical physics and computer science to explain and connect many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers, and physics of time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe.
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- Title The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
- Author Deutsch, David
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY
- Date 1998-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 014027541X_used
- ISBN 9780140275414 / 014027541X
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.35 x 0.96 in (20.29 x 13.59 x 2.44 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Cosmology, Life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97006171
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.01
Summary
For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes “parallel” to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to achieving a new worldview, one which synthesizes the theories of evolution, computation, and knowledge with quantum physics. Considered jointly, these four strands of explanation reveal a unified fabric of reality that is both objective and comprehensible, the subject of this daring, challenging book. The Fabric of Reality explains and connects many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers (which work by effectively collaborating with their counterparts in other universes), the physics of time travel, the comprehensibility of nature and the physical limits of virtual reality, the significance of human life, and the ultimate fate of the universe. Here, for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert, is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.
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- New York Times, 08/30/1998, Page 24