Book description
We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the
universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility:
the universe itself might just be one universe among many. In
Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary
journey, examining the most fundamental questions in science.
What are the boundaries of our universe? Can there be different
physical laws from the ones we know? Are there in fact other
universes? Do we really live in a multiverse?
This book is a search - the ultimate search - exploring the
frontiers of reality. Ideas that were once science fiction have now
come to dominate modern physics. And, as John Gribbin shows, there is
increasing evidence that there really is more to the universe than we
can see. Gribbin guides us through the different competing theories
(there is more than one multiverse!) revealing what they have in
common and what we can come to expect. He gives a brilliant tour of
the current state of cosmology.
John Gribbin is our best, most accessible guide to the big questions
of science. And there is no bigger question than our search for the multiverse.
John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science
and the author of bestselling books, including
In Search of Schr
dinger's Cat
,
Stardust
,
Science: A History
and
Deep Simplicity
. He is famous to his many fans for making complex ideas simple, and
says that his aim in his writing - much of it done with his wife, Mary
Gribbin - is to share with his readers his sense of wonder at the
strangeness of the universe. John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist
at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at
the University of Sussex.
