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ISBN: 9780140275414

Book Title: Fabric of Reality : the Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications

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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 1998

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Language: English

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Author: David Deutsch

Genre: Science, Philosophy

Topic: Physics / Quantum Theory, Physics / Astrophysics, General, Cosmology, Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Physics / General

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A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse - as referenced in the film "Avengers: Endgame" For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes "parallel" to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes, according to Deutsch, turns out to be the key to achieving a new worldview, one which synthesizes the theories of evolution, computation, and knowledge with quantum physics. Considered jointly, these four strands of explanation reveal a unified fabric of reality that is both objective and comprehensible, the subject of this daring, challenging book. The Fabric of Reality explains and connects many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers (which work by effectively collaborating with their counterparts in other universes), the physics of time travel, the comprehensibility of nature and the physical limits of virtual reality, the significance of human life, and the ultimate fate of the universe. Here, for scientist and layperson alike, for philosopher, science-fiction reader, biologist, and computer expert, is a startlingly complete and rational synthesis of disciplines, and a new, optimistic message about existence.

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Fabric of Reality : the Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications

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David Deutsch

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1998

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Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Theory of Everything 2. Shadows 3. Problem-solving 4. Criteria for Reality 5. Virtual Reality 6. Universality and the Limits of Computation 7. A Conversation about Justification 8. The Significance of Life 9. Quantum Computers 10. The Nature of Mathematics 11. Time: The First Quantum Concept 12. Time Travel 13. The Four Strands 14. The Ends of the Universe Bibliography Index

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In 1619, Johannes Kepler, a theoretical astronomer who earned the greater part of his income from casting horoscopes, published the Harmonices Mundi, the "Harmony of the World". It contained a statement of the Third Law, relating the period of a planet's rotation around the sun to the radius of its orbit; this was the fruit of years of diligent work, and a first-order scientific breakthrough. The book also contained hundreds of pages of the most ridiculous pseudo-scientific nonsense, where Kepler used the shapes of the regular geometric solids to explain the distances of the various planets from the Sun. He later considered the notes of the musical scale and inferred the heavenly harmonies produced by the celestial choir. The serious-minded Laplace, writing his brief history of astronomy a ... In 1619, Johannes Kepler, a theoretical astronomer who earned the greater part of his income from casting horoscopes, published the Harmonices Mundi, the "Harmony of the World". It contained a statement of the Third Law, relating the period of a planet's rotation around the sun to the radius of its orbit; this was the fruit of years of diligent work, and a first-order scientific breakthrough. The book also contained hundreds of pages of the most ridiculous pseudo-scientific nonsense, where Kepler used the shapes of the regular geometric solids to explain the distances of the various planets from the Sun. He later considered the notes of the musical scale and inferred the heavenly harmonies produced by the celestial choir. The serious-minded Laplace, writing his brief history of astronomy a couple of centuries later, is shocked. How could someone as smart as Kepler do this? What was he thinking? If things work out well for David Deutsch, it's possible that an as yet unborn historian will write similar things about him in the twenty-third century. Some parts of his modestly-titled The Fabric of Reality are interesting and insightful. In particular, he makes a rather good case for the reality of the quantum multiverse, which already seems to have had a considerable effect: I didn't realize it at the time, but I've seen him quoted more than once. Deutsch's presentation combines themes from two of his heroes, Hugh Everett (the inventor of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics) and Karl Popper. Deutsch starts by asking, with Popper, about the nature of the scientific process. He claims that it is primarily about using evidence-based argument to weigh the merits of rival explanations; the best scientific theory is the one that is currently winning the arguments. He persuasively suggests that, on these reasonable-sounding criteria, Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation is in fact the best way to think about quantum mechanics. In particular, it is by far the most intuitive way to think about quantum computers, a subject where Deutsch has played a pioneering role. If you are at all interested in these matters, I strongly recommend reading his clear, lucid exposition. And then... oh dear. From its logical, eminently sane beginnings, the book gradually descends into more and more bizarre territory. Deutsch introduces his eccentric personal take on the Church-Turing thesis, and uses it to derive all manner of odd consequences. He tells us that everyone who has ever worked on the philosophy of mathematics has got it wrong: mathematical proof is part of the physical world, and thus essentially bound by the laws of physics. He spends thirty pages discussing time-travel, and concludes that it is perfectly feasible in the quantum multiverse. In the last chapter, he throws aside all his inhibitions and outlines an extended fantasy, based on the work of Frank Tipler, which forecasts the future evolution of the cosmos. Intelligent life, we read, will inevitably learn to control first the Sun, then the galaxy, then the whole universe. As we head for the Big Crunch, the future civilization will take control of the gigantic gravitational energies released to create a godlike cosmic consciousness. This will exponentially slow down time, so that our distant descendents will subjectively never die, living forever in the final moments of the universal collapse. All of this, if I understood correctly, is mandated by the extended Turing Principle: the results, startling as they seem, just follow from the laws of physics. The only thing that's not quite clear is whether the godlike future being will resurrect the dead and put them in a Heaven-like environment. Tipler, a Christian, thinks it will, but Deutsch is inclined to disagree. It must have been disappointing when dark energy was discovered the year after, implying that there wouldn't be a Big Crunch after all. But Deutsch doesn't come across as the kind of guy who sits around and mopes over his setbacks. My guess is that his new theory is even better, and when he and Kepler are resurrected together some time in the infinite future I'm sure they'll have no end of fun comparing notes.
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