We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos. No book for a popular audience has attempted to make this radical argument.

Carroll argues that our refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded us, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function. The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity-his theory of curved spacetime. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established. Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. 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. 1 2020 by Sean Carroll (Author) 2,536 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 32.22 19 Used from 11.82 18 New from 29. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Paperback Sept. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. Academics discourage students from working on the 'dead end' of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand.

Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Science News favorite science book of 2019 As you read these words, copies of you are being created.

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