The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications - Hardcover

Deutsch, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713990619 ISBN 13: 9780713990614

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1997

Synopsis

Presents a synthesis of four areas of modern scientific theory--parallel universes, epistemology, evolution, and universal computation--showing how they are linked by the idea of multiple universes

About this title

Review

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense," writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch traces what he considers the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum theory, evolution, computation, and the theory of knowledge. "The four of them taken together form a coherent explanatory structure that is so far-reaching, and has come to encompass so much of our understanding of the world, that in my view it may already properly be called the first Theory of Everything." Deutsch covers some difficult material with unusual clarity. Each chapter ends with a summary and definitions of important terms, which makes the work an invaluable sourcebook.

About the Author

David Deutsch, internationally acclaimed for his seminal publications on quantum computation, is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0713990619
• ISBN 13: 9780713990614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390