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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 432 pages, height x width x depth: 239x161x38 mm, weight: 708 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Jan-2014
  • Izdevniecība: Allen Lane
  • ISBN-10: 1846144760
  • ISBN-13: 9781846144769
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 432 pages, height x width x depth: 239x161x38 mm, weight: 708 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Jan-2014
  • Izdevniecība: Allen Lane
  • ISBN-10: 1846144760
  • ISBN-13: 9781846144769
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Nature, said Galileo, is 'a book written in the language of mathematics'. But why should this be? How can mathematics be at the heart of our universe?

The great Hungarian physicist and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner stressed that this 'unreasonable effectiveness' of mathematics at describing the world was a mystery demanding explanation. Here, Max Tegmark, one of the most original cosmologists at work today, takes us on an astonishing journey to solve that mystery.

Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, across every possible scale - from the sub-atomic to the intergalactic - showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about the world. Where do we come from? What makes the universe the way it is? In essence, why are we here? With dazzling clarity, Max Tegmark ponders these deep mysteries and allows us to grasp the most cutting-edge and mind-boggling theories of physics.

What he proposes is an elegant and fascinating idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. Astoundingly, we may live in a mathematical universe.

Max Tegmark is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers, twelve of which have been cited more than 500 times. He has featured in dozens of science documentaries, and his work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year: 2003". He holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a physics professor at MIT.

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Our Mathematical Universe boldly confronts one of the deepest questions at the fertile interface of physics and philosophy: why is mathematics so spectacularly successful at describing the cosmos? Through lively writing and wonderfully accessible explanations, Max Tegmark-one of the world's leading theoretical physicists-guides the reader to a possible answer, and reveals how, if it's right, our understanding of reality itself would be radically altered -- Brian Greene, physicist, author of 'The Elegant Universe', 'The Hidden Reality' An amazing ride through the rich landscape of contemporary cosmology... Physics could do with more characters like Tegmark... an imaginative intellect and a charismatic presence -- Clive Cookson * Financial Times * Our Mathematical Universe is nothing if not impressive. Brilliantly argued and beautifully written, it is never less than thought-provoking about the greatest mysteries of our existence * New York Times * Tegmark is one of the rock gods of cosmology, a select group of thinkers who are using their mathematical prowess to tear up all our cherished notions about the universe, and replace it with a cosmos that is so bewilderingly weird that it makes the plot of most science-fiction novels look like an Ikea instruction leaflet * Telegraph *

Preface ix
1 What Is Reality?
3(14)
Not What It Seems
What's the Ultimate Question?
The Journey Begins
Part One Zooming Out
2 Our Place in Space
17(17)
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
34(34)
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
68(27)
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
95(24)
What's Wrong with Our Big Bang?
How Inflation Works
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Eternal Inflation
6 Welcome to the Multiverse
119(38)
The Level I Multiverse
The Level II Multiverse
Multiverse Halftime Roundup
Part Two Zooming In
7 Cosmic Legos
157(27)
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
184(49)
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
233(10)
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
243(29)
Math, Math Everywhere!
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
What Is a Mathematical Structure?
11 Is Time an Illusion?
272(47)
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
319(39)
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
358(41)
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 399(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading 401(6)
Index 407
Max Tegmark is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers, twelve of which have been cited more than 500 times. He has featured in dozens of science documentaries, and his work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year: 2003". He holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a physics professor at MIT.