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The Fabric of Reality : The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications (Allen Lane Science S.)
The Fabric of Reality The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications - Allen Lane Science S. Author:David Deutsch Quantum physics, evolution, computation, and knowledge-these four main strands of scientific theory and philosophy have, until now, remained incomplete explanations of the way the universe works. These strands may seem unrelated, yet in 'The Fabric of Reality' Oxford scholar David Deutsch shows that they are so closely intertwin... more »ed that we cannot properly understand any one of them without reference to the other three. Considered jointly, they reveal a unified fabric of reality that is objective and comprehensible, and in which human actions and ideas play essential roles.
The most profound of these four strands is quantum theory, which 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, and that they are detectable through the astonishing phenomenon of quantum interference. The multiplicity of universes turns out to be the key to the unification of the four strands. For example, both the growth of scientific knowledge and the evolution of biological adaptations are best understood as multiuniverse phenomena.
'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 nature of scientific and mathematical knowledge, 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.« less