Something deeply hidden : quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime / Sean Carroll.
"Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have...
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| Language: | English |
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[Boston, Massachusetts] :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part one : Spooky. What's going on : Looking at the quantum world
- The courageous formulation : Pure quantum mechanics
- Why would anybody think this? : How quantum mechanics came to be
- What cannot be known, because it does not exist : Uncertainty and complementarity
- Entangled up in blue : Wave functions of many parts
- Part two : Splitting. Splitting the universe : Decoherence and parallel worlds
- Order and randomness : Where probability comes from
- Does this ontological commitment make me look fat? : A Socratic dialogue on quantum puzzles
- Other ways : Alternatives to many-worlds
- The human side : Living and thinking in a quantum universe
- Part three : Spacetime. Why is there space? : Emergence and locality
- A world of vibrations : Quantum field theory
- Breathing in empty space : Finding gravity within quantum mechanics
- Beyond space and time : Holography, black holes, and the limits of locality
- Epilogue : Everything is quantum.