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Visions of the multiverse / by Steven Manly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pompton Plains, NJ : New Page Books, c2011.Description: 271 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1601631294
  • 1601637209 (ebook)
  • 9781601631299
  • 9781601637208 (ebook)
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Contents:
Got Copernicus? -- A brief history of space-time -- Particles and fields and waves, oh my! -- God's gambling problem -- Of boxer shorts and charmed quarks -- A case of cosmic acne -- The ultimate free lunch -- Doing a little gravity -- Copernicus on steroids -- Appendix A : an overview of multiverse concepts -- Appendix B : tegmark's taxonomy of the multiverse.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 530.11 M279 Available 33111006371971
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The idea of a multiple universe reality is no longer considered speculative or implausible by many physicists; rather, it is deemed inescapable. Distinct concepts of the multiverse spring from quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory-based cosmology, and ideas about a mathematics based reality that borders on the religious.

In this accessible and entertaining book, Dr. Manly guides you on a tour of the many multiverse concepts and provides the non-technical background to understand them.

Visions of the Multiverse explores questions such as:

Just what is a multiverse? What are the different concepts of the multiverse and how are they related? Is it possible to determine if we live in a multiverse...or even in multiple types of multiverses? How do religious concepts of the afterlife and popular ideas based on the Law of Attraction relate to the scientific visions of the multiverse?

Dr. Manly discusses a wide variety of fascinating concepts from relativity and the fundamental particles and forces of nature to dark matter, dark energy, and quantum mechanics in an unintimidating and conversational tone.

Is humanity is in the midst of a new Copernican revolution? You decide.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Got Copernicus? -- A brief history of space-time -- Particles and fields and waves, oh my! -- God's gambling problem -- Of boxer shorts and charmed quarks -- A case of cosmic acne -- The ultimate free lunch -- Doing a little gravity -- Copernicus on steroids -- Appendix A : an overview of multiverse concepts -- Appendix B : tegmark's taxonomy of the multiverse.

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