INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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As you read these words, copies of you are being created.**
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most
celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century
physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden
shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of
quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time.
His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of
relativity changes, well, everything.
Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics
has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious
gaps--which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep
telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand.
Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum
foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this
audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can
now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one
of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every
one of us.
Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The
Many-Worlds theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a
quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except
in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in
Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this
otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established.
Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in
the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding--of where
we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.
