Something deeply hidden: quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime (Record no. 52062)
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| fixed length control field | 02342 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781786076335 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.12 CAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carroll, Sean |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Something deeply hidden: quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oneworld, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2019. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 247 p. |
| Other physical details | hb; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 1499.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 recognised 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 popularisers 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 behaviour 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 reorganise 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Quantum Theory |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Space and Time |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Quantum Field Theory |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Wave Functions |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular Works |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 07/02/2020 | Himanshu Books | 1499.00 | 12 | 1 | 530.12 CAR | 028641 | 16/04/2024 | 28/03/2024 | 1 | 1499.00 | Books |
