Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll - 2019
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
Narrated by: Sean Carroll
Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-10-19
Language: English
Genre: Science & Technology, Physics
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/44.1 stereo
Publisher's Summary
One of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of the Fall
"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality." (Brian Greene)
As you listen to these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927.
Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps - which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us.
Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established.
Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding - of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.
©2019 Sean Carroll (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Critic Reviews
"Readers in this universe (and others?) will relish the opportunity to explore the frontiers of science in the company of titans." (Booklist)
"Fans of popular science authors such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and John Gribbin will find great joy while exploring these groundbreaking concepts." (Library Journal)
"[A] challenging, provocative book...moving smoothly through different topics and from objects as small as particles to those as enormous as black holes, Carroll’s exploration of quantum theory introduces readers to some of the most groundbreaking ideas in physics today." (Publishers Weekly)
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