Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes & the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe the 'string theory' that might hold the key to unifying nature's laws & our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet as physicist Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows ours may be just one universe among many like endless reflections in a mirror. He takes us on a captivating exploration of parallel worlds
- from a multiverse where an infinite number of your doppelgangers are reading this sentence to vast oceans of bubble universes & even multiverses made from mathematics
- showing just how much of reality's true nature may be hidden within them. " If extraterrestrials land tomorrow & demand to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing.. .hand them a copy of this book" (The New York Times Book Review). "A writer of exceptional clarity & charm.. .every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable mind-expanding realities". (Oliver Sacks). " The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse & will open up many people's eyes". (John Gribbin). Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory " The Elegant Universe" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction " The Fabric of the Cosmos" & " The Hidden Reality". Educated at Harvard & Oxford he has taught at both Harvard & Cornell & has been Professor of Physics & Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996."