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Something Deeply Hidden

Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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Something Deeply Hidden

Written by: Sean Carroll
Narrated by: Sean Carroll
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

As you read these words, copies of you are being created.


Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything.

Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us.

Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established.

Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.
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simple for a layman like me. It was informative and interesting at the same time

Nice book....

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I would have preferred this be an objective overview of all the competing interpretations to the Copenhagen one. How ever Sean Carroll seems dogmatically focused on the Many Worlds interpretation. In fact after this I came out liking what QBism has to say... Now let me go find some literature on that...

Too much of a hard sell

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I struggled to finish the final 5 hours. The first 6 hours are interesting and is all that one needs to enjoy the book. Author narrates very well.

One should see if part 1 and parts 2-3 can be split by the narrator. Parts 2-3 are more speculative and not as interesting as the part 1. So giving one star less.

Liked first part or first 6 hours

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