The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By (Author) Brian Greene
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
27th April 2012
2nd February 2012
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Cosmology and the universe
530.12
Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012
Paperback
384
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
278g
The newest discoveries about multiverses from the best writer in the field There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows, ours may be just one universe among many, like endless reflections in a mirror. He takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds - from a multiverse where an infinite number of your doppelg ngers are reading this sentence, to vast oceans of bubble universes and even multiverses made of mathematics - showing just how much of reality's true nature may be hidden within them.
Brian Greene's book The Hidden Reality is a tour de force of one of the most controversial areas of modern science - the possibility that there are multiple universes... Greene's ability as a populariser has matured with each new publication and this latest offering is his best yet -- Alastair Gunn * Sky at Night *
Exciting and rewarding ... captures and engages the imagination ... Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas * New York Times *
If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book * New York Times Book Review *
The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse and will open up many people's eyes -- John Gribbin
Every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable, mind-expanding realities -- Oliver Sacks
Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory, The Elegant Universe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and The Fabric of the Cosmos. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has taught at both Harvard and Cornell and has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996.