Max Tegmark
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Max 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…mehr
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Max 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.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Random House Children's Books
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780307744258
- ISBN-10: 0307744256
- Artikelnr.: 40952599
- Verlag: Random House Children's Books
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780307744258
- ISBN-10: 0307744256
- Artikelnr.: 40952599
Max Tegmark
Preface
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
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
Preface
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
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