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Our Mathematical Universe : My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307744256

ISBN-139780307744258

eBay Product ID (ePID)202462362

Product Key Features

Book TitleOur Mathematical Universe : My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicPhilosophy & Social Aspects, History & Philosophy, Cosmology

IllustratorYes

GenreMathematics, Science

AuthorMax Tegmark

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-016020

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal523.10151

Table Of ContentPreface 1 What Is Reality? Not What It Seems * What's the Ultimate Question? * The Journey Begins Part One: Zooming Out 2 Our Place in Space Cosmic Questions * How Big Is Space? * The Size of Earth * Distance to the Moon * Distance to the Sun and the Planets * Distance to the Stars * Distance to the Galaxies * What Is Space? 3 Our Place in Time Where Did Our Solar System Come From? * Where Did the Galaxies Come From? * Where Did the Mysterious Microwaves Come From? * Where Did the Atoms Come From? 4 Our Universe by Numbers Wanted: Precision Cosmology * Precision Microwave-Background Fluctuations * Precision Galaxy Clustering * The Ultimate Map of Our Universe * Where Did Our Big Bang Come From? 5 Our Cosmic Origins What's Wrong with Our Big Bang? * How Inflation Works * The Gift That Keeps on Giving * Eternal Inflation 6 Welcome to the Multiverse The Level I Multiverse * The Level II Multiverse * Multiverse Halftime Roundup Part Two: Zooming In 7 Cosmic Legos Atomic Legos * Nuclear Legos * Particle-Physics Legos * Mathematical Legos * Photon Legos * Above the Law? * Quanta and Rainbows * Making Waves * Quantum Weirdness * The Collapse of Consensus * The Weirdness Can't Be Confined * Quantum Confusion 8 The Level III Multiverse The Level III Multiverse * The Illusion of Randomness * Quantum Censorship * The Joys of Getting Scooped * Why Your Brain Isn't a Quantum Computer * Subject, Object and Environment * Quantum Suicide * Quantum Immortality? * Multiverses Unified * Shifting Views: Many Worlds or Many Words? Part Three: Stepping Back 9 Internal Reality, External Reality and Consensus Reality External Reality and Internal Reality * The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth * Consensus Reality * Physics: Linking External to Consensus Reality 10 Physical Reality and Mathematical Reality Math, Math Everywhere! * The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis * What Is a Mathematical Structure? 11 Is Time an Illusion? How Can Physical Reality Be Mathematical? * What Are You? * Where Are You? (And What Do You Perceive?) * When Are You? 12 The Level IV Multiverse Why I Believe in the Level IV Multiverse * Exploring the Level IV Multiverse: What's Out There? * Implications of the Level IV Multiverse * Are We Living in a Simulation? * Relation Between the MUH, the Level IV Multiverse and Other Hypotheses *Testing the Level IV Multiverse 13 Life, Our Universe and Everything How Big Is Our Physical Reality? * The Future of Physics * The Future of Our Universe--How Will It End? * The Future of Life *The Future of You--Are You Insignificant? Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading Index

SynopsisMax Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last--this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.

LC Classification NumberQB981.T44 2014