Something Deeply Hidden - Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Sean Carroll

Publié par Dutton, le 01 septembre 2020

347 pages

Résumé

As you read these words, many copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll turns his attention to the deepest question in physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. The proposal that our universe emerges from quantum entanglement makes this book eye-opening, mind-bending, essential reading. The Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off that is exactly the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. And so, thousands of copies of you are generated every second. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe.