The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe? There  was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a  number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe  may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast  multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and  science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse  comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates  of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a  multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and  even a multiverse made purely of math--and reveals the reality hidden  within each. Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene  presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the  inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great  swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.