Is our universe just one of many?
The most fascinating mysteries in modern physics seem to point us in
that direction. As impossible as it seems--that other universes came
before ours, float alongside ours, or even mirror ours--the evidence is
surprisingly convincing.
In his most mind-blowing, sweeping work since Schrödinger's Kittens and
the Search for Reality, acclaimed science writer and astrophysicist
John Gribbin takes readers In Search of the Multiverse, launching an
extraordinary journey to the frontiers of reality. Touching on the
newest research on quantum physics, thermodynamics, string theory, and
even the nature of God, this brilliant tour of the current state of
cosmology also goes beyond the realm of settled science to the
astonishing questions theoretical physicists have only now begun to ask.
Gribbin has long been known for his ability to explain even the most
bewildering and complex ideas in the simplest of terms, and that skill
is fully on display here. In this new book, he reveals why even the
greatest thinkers can't explain the realities of quantum physics without
bumping up against the unimaginable. He explores certain anomalies in
our Universe that only make sense when you incorporate ideas that were
once found only in science fiction. But which fantastical notion of
alternate universes is the right one?
Gribbin guides you expertly through the competing Multiverse theories,
who thought them up, and what problems they were hoping to solve with
such outlandish ideas. You'll visit a realm of infinite space containing
an infinite number of regions separated by infinite distances and ruled
by different sets of physical laws. You'll drift along an infinite time
line, on which different universes are strung out, one after the other,
like beads on a wire. And you'll leaf through an infinitely thick book
stuffed with an infinite number of pages: each page a different
universe, existing in a different dimension--tantalizingly close
together, but eternally unable to communicate with each other.
If our universe is three-dimensional and infinite, how could it be
inside something else? Is it possible to travel to one of these
alternate universes? Are particles traveling there every moment? How can
scientists prove the existence of the Multiverse if they can't travel to
it? Read In Search of the Multiverse and enter a world that is more
mind-bending, thought-provoking, and imagination-sparking than the
fantasy worlds you'd discover in a bookstore full of science fiction
novels.
