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050	0	0	_aQC6 _b.G6885 2011
082	0	0	_a530.12 GRE
100	1		_aGreene, B. (Brian) _d, 1963-
245	1	4	_aThe hidden reality _b: parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos _c/ Brian Greene
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2011.
300			_axi, 370 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
505	0	0	_aThe 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.
520			_a"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.
650		4	_aPhysics _x-Philosophy
650		4	_aQuantum theory
650		0	_aGeneral relativity (Physics).
650		0	_aCosmology
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