Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps - which have come to be simply ignored. Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth: Physics has been in crisis since 1927. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity changes, well, everything. 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. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. "Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality." (Brian Greene)Īs you listen to these words, copies of you are being created. We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos.One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall 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. As you read this, you are splitting into multiple copies of yourself 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. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. 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.
Now in paperback, Something Deeply Hidden attempts what no book for a popular audience has undertaken. University of Toronto Schools Technology SuppliesĬaltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.
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