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From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to datea book that takes on the grandest question Is ours the only universeThere was a time when universe meant all there is Everything Yet in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy Brian Greene shows how a range of different multiverse proposals emerges from theories developed to explain the most refined observations of both subatomic particles and the dark depths of space a multiverse in which you have an infinite number of doppelgngers each reading this sentence in a distant universe a multiverse comprising a vast ocean of bubble universes of which ours is but one a multiverse that endlessly cycles through time or one that might be hovering millimeters away yet remains invisible another in which every possibility allowed by quantum physics is brought to life Or perhaps strangest of all a multiverse made purely of mathGreene one of our foremost physicists and science writers takes us on a captivating exploration of these parallel worlds and reveals how much of realitys true nature may be deeply hidden within them And with his unrivaled ability to make the most challenging of material accessible and entertaining Greene tackles the core question How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reachSparked by Greenes trademark wit and precision The Hidden Reality is at once a far-reaching survey of cutting-edge physics and a remarkable journey to the very edge of realitya journey grounded firmly in science and limited only by our imagination.
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Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and lives in New York City.