Book description
In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current
understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our
continuing quest to know more.
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. In some,
they are separated from us by enormous stretches of space or time, in
others they're hovering millimetres away, in others still the very
notion of their location proves to be a concept beyond our reach. Most
extraordinarily, Greene shows how all of these parallel universe
proposals emerge unbidden from the mathematics of theories developed
to explain conventional data and observations of the cosmos.
This is a life-changing book that gives us a true sense of the
astounding possibilities of modern scientific investigation.
Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of
theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about
string theory,
The Elegant Universe,
which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and
The
Fabric of the Cosmos.
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has taught at both Harvard and
Cornell and has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia
University since 1996.
