Parallel universes The search for other worlds
Book - 2006
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New York, NY :
Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
[2006?]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Touchstone edition
- Physical Description
- 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780671696016
- Introduction
- Quantum Physics: Bringing in an Observer
- Relativity: Relationships-Weird and Wonderful
- Cosmology: A Search for the Beginning
- Psychology: Consciousness and Machine Intelligence
- Parallel Universes and Communication with the Future
- Part 1. What Are Parallel Universes?
- Chapter 1. How Quantum Physics Predicts the Existence of Parallel Universes
- The New Physics Had Strange Ideas
- Chapter 2. The Penultimate Experiment: Shooting Through Double Slits
- The Mystery Persists
- The Wave Was Not Real
- Why Parallel Universes Were Invented
- Chapter 3. Riding the Wave Through Parallel Worlds
- A Dizzy Atom in an Infinity of Worlds
- The Quantum Magic Lantern Theater
- The Electron Exists in Parallel Universes
- Chapter 4. A Wave Passes Through Copenhagen
- Trouble in the New Physics
- The Observer Participates Whether She Wants to or Not
- Chapter 5. The Meaning of a Quantum Wave Function
- The Wave Was Invisible
- The Emperor's New Clothes: The Quantum Wave Function
- Does the Universe Quantum Jump?
- Part 2. A Reappraisal: What Happened to the Unity in Universe?
- Chapter 6. The Business of Isness
- Infinity, Infinity Everywhere and Not a Spot to Think
- The First Infinity: A Straight Line
- Infinity Number 2-It's All Done with Mirrors
- Chapter 7. How Things That Are Depend on Things That Aren't and How We Aren't Normally Aware That Anything is Any Different
- Reflections in a Parallel Universe
- In-Betweenness or Room for One More
- Reflection
- Chapter 8. Self-Reference: Isness and Ain'tness
- It's a Complementary World After All
- An Example: A Coin in Four Universes
- Chapter 9. Look Up in the Air-It's Superspace!
- Superspace! Broadway Theater Style
- Uncertainty in Superspace
- What If Newton Was Right? Silly Superspace
- A Pattern of Order in Superspace: Consciousness Emerging
- Chapter 10. A Mouse, a Coin, and a Quantum Conspiracy
- A Conspiracy of Universes
- Part 3. Inside and Outside: Time Bends and Space Warps
- Chapter 11. Relativity and Time As a Dimension of Space
- Primal Time
- The First Time I Saw Spacetime
- The Popular Dimension of Time
- How Time Can Be Viewed as the Fourth Dimension
- The Democratization of Space and Time
- A Relativistic Game of Catch
- What Does a Four-Dimensional Object Look Like?
- Time Is Space Is Time Is...
- Chapter 12. Real Time, Zero Time, Imaginary Time and Real Space, and Imaginary Space
- Invariance in Geometry
- Invariance in Spacetime
- Imaginary Space
- A Change in Time
- Going Down Fifth Avenue in Spacetime
- An Ordinary Particle
- A Zero-Time Ghost
- An Imaginary Time Superman
- Chapter 13. Einstein's Parallel Universe
- If Pythagoras Is Right, Spacetime Is Flat
- Visualizing a Curved Space
- Einstein's Curves
- Einstein Going Around the Bend
- Measuring Time Warps
- A Bend in Time Means a Parallel Universe
- Chapter 14. Black Holes: Gateways to Parallel Universes
- Space Warps
- How Space Curvature Creates a Black Hole
- What Is a Black Hole?
- Chapter 15. How Black Holes Predicted Parallel Universes
- My Meeting with a Black Hole Map Maker
- What's Black and White and Dread All Over?
- Chapter 16. An Imaginary Journey to Parallel Universes Through a Black Hole
- Sending Tachyons to Do a Photon's Work
- How a Rotating Black Hole Is a Bridge to Many Universes
- An Infinity of Parallel Universes
- Part 4. "In the Beginning There Was..."
- The First Inconsistency, Not Enough Time to Start the Universe
- Inflationary Models
- Inflation Is Not Enough
- Parallel Universes Solve Another Problem
- Chapter 17. The First Observer of the Big Bang
- The Names of God
- A Cloud and the Observer Effect
- The Observer Disturbs and Creates
- The Grand Prix at the Beginning of Time
- Time at the Beginning of Time
- Space Where No One Has Gone Before
- Black Holes: Another Way to a Parallel Universe
- The Scale of the Universe
- Chapter 18. Problems in Eden
- Singularities Do Not Admit Laws of Physics in Their Domains
- In the Beginning There Was Uncertainty
- Chapter 19. The Ground Upon Which the Universe Stood
- An Electron in an Atom and a Universe in a Universe of Universes
- The Universe at Time Zero: Energy or Location?
- Chapter 20. Who Saw What When?
- The Measure of All Things
- Classical Gas on the Mind
- Classical Coin Flipping
- Quantum Spin Flipping
- Part 5. How Parallel Universes Predict a New Notion of Time
- Do Thoughts and Wishes Time Travel?
- Neutron Star Time Machines
- Chapter 21. Time Travel
- Chapter 22. Time Travel Paradox Resolution by Parallel Universes
- Chapter 23. Clashing Waves of Time
- Time Is Invisible
- Classical Physics Has No Time Order
- Quantum Physics Has No Time Order
- Time Waves
- A New Picture of Time
- Which Future Sends the Message?
- Me in the Future Talks to Me in the Now
- Chapter 24. Wheeler's Choice
- A Photon from the Dawn of Time
- Experimental Verification of Backward-Through-Time Travel
- Now Makes the Past
- Does the Future Influence the Present?
- Resolving the Paradox: Time Travel and Parallel Universes
- Time Is Self-Consistently Connected to Parallel Universes
- Chapter 25. Building a Time Machine
- Dateline December 3, 2587: Galaxy News Report
- Dateline December 15, 2587: Galaxy News Report
- Back to the Present
- Part 6. Time and Mind in Parallel Universes
- The Mind in Parallel Worlds
- Chapter 26. Mind in Parallel Universes
- Quantum Rules of the Game According to Hoyle
- A Knight's Alter Egos
- The Spouse-of-the-Day
- Chapter 27. Quantum "Two-Timers" and more Messages from the Future
- How to Violate the Uncertainty Principle: Talk to Yourself in the Future
- Chapter 28. Taking a Photograph of Another Parallel Universe
- Get Your Cameras Ready
- The Rules of Parallel Universe Photography
- Taking the Photograph of a Parallel World
- Using Parallel Universes to Predict the Stock Market
- Chapter 29. How Is something Known?
- Chapter 30. Quantum Computers and Quantum Ethics
- Quantum Ethics
- Chapter 31. Talking to Tomorrow's Parallel Universe
- The Infinite Number of Parallel Universes...Inside Your Head
- The Scientist's Brain Is Split by the Atom
- Information Flows from Past to Present and from Future to Present
- Chapter 32. Alpha and Omega
- Both the Future and the Past Exist
- The Omega Point
- An Overall View
- Chapter 33. Reality and Existence
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index