The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications - Softcover

Deutsch, David

 
9780140275414: The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
Softcover
ISBN 10: 014027541X ISBN 13: 9780140275414
Verlag: Penguin, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse from an award-winning physicist

For David Deutsch, a 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 based on four main strands:

• Quantum physics and its many-universes interpretation
• The theory of evolution (Darwin/Dawkins)
• The theory of computation (quantum computation)
• The theory of knowledge (Karl Popper), explanation and understanding

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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David Deutsch, internationally acclaimed for his seminal publications on quantum computation, is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014027541X
ISBN 13 
9780140275414
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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