The Fabric of Reality The Fabric of Reality

The Fabric of Reality

The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
1997
August 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Jstump3783 ,

The Fabric of Reality

The writing style was awkward, making the topic much more difficult to understand.

Karl-Anthony Towns ,

A Masterclass on The Theory of Knowledge

I recommend reading prior to The Beginning of Infinity or after to cement comprehension.

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