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

The bestselling author ofThe Elegant UniverseandThe Fabric of the Cosmostackles 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 Realityis a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.

“Brian Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas. . . Captures and engages the imagination. . . . It’s exciting and rewarding to read him.” —The New York Times

“A wonderful way to coax your brain into a host of strange and unfamiliar domains.” —The Boston Globe

“Exciting physics, wrapped up in effortless prose. . . . Greene has done it again.” —New Scientist

“If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“The multiverse is an idea whose time has come. . . . The book serves l32