Greene, B. (Brian)  , 1963- <br/><br/>
The hidden reality  : parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos 
/ Brian Greene 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Alfred A. Knopf  , 2011. 
 - xi, 370 p.  : ill.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index. 
<br/><br/>The bounds of reality: on parallel worlds -- Endless doppelgangers: the quilted multiverse -- Eternity and infinity: the inflationary multiverse -- Unifying nature's laws: on the road to string theory -- Hovering universes in nearby dimensions: the brane and cyclic multiverses -- New thinking about an old constant: the landscape multiverse -- Science and the multiverse: on inference, explanation, and prediction -- The many worlds of quantum measurement: the quantum multiverse -- Black holes and holograms: the holographic multiverse -- Universes, computers, and mathematical reality: the simulated and ultimate multiverses -- The limits of inquiry: multiverses and the future. 
<br/><br/> "The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics -- relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational -- have all led us to consider one or another variety of parallel universe. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307265630 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010042710 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physics---Philosophy<br/>Quantum theory<br/>General relativity (Physics).<br/>Cosmology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC6  / .G6885 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.12 GRE