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Brian Greene
 
THE HIDDEN REALITY
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Contents
Preface
 1. The Bounds of Reality
On Parallel Worlds
 2. Endless Doppelgängers
The Quilted Multiverse
 3. Eternity and Infinity
The Inflationary Multiverse
 4. Unifying Nature’s Laws
On the Road to String Theory
 5. Hovering Universes in Nearby Dimensions
The Brane and Cyclic Multiverses
 6. New Thinking About an Old Constant
The Landscape Multiverse
 7. Science and the Multiverse
On Inference, Explanation, and Prediction
 8. The Many Worlds of Quantum Measurement
The Quantum Multiverse
 9. Black Holes and Holograms
The Holographic Multiverse
10. Universes, Computers, and Mathematical Reality
The Simulated and Ultimate Multiverses
11. The Limits of Inquiry
Multiverses and the Future
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Follow Penguin
To Alec and Sophia
ALSO BY BRIAN GREENE
Icarus at the Edge of Time
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Elegant Universe
Preface
If there was any doubt at the turn of the twentieth century, by the turn of the twenty-first, it was a foregone conclusion: when it comes to revealing the true nature of reality, common experience is deceptive. On reflection, that’s not particularly surprising. As our forebears gathered in forests and hunted on the savannas, an ability to calculate the quantum behavior of electrons or determine the cosmological implications of black holes would have provided little in the way of survival advantage. But an edge was surely offered by having a larger brain, and as our intellectual faculties grew, so, too, did our capacity to probe our surroundings more deeply. Some of our species built equipment to extend the reach of our senses; others became facile with a systematic method for detecting and expressing pattern—mathematics. With these tools, we began to peer behind everyday appearances.
What we’ve found has already required sweeping changes to our picture of the cosmos. Through physical insight and mathematical rigor, guided and confirmed by experimentation and observation, we’ve established that space, time, matter, and energy engage a behavioral repertoire unlike anything any of us have ever directly witnessed. And now, penetrating analyses of these and related discoveries are leading us to what may be the next upheaval in understanding: the possibility that our universe is not the only universe. The Hidden Reality
explores this possibility.
In writing The Hidden Reality,
I’ve presumed no expertise in physics or ............

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