Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation

By David Wallace

Book Overview

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the "many worlds" approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it seems to make crazy claims: particles are in two places at once; cats are alive and dead at the same time. So physicists and philosophers have often been led either to give up on the idea that quantum theory describes reality, or to modify or augment the theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546967
• ISBN13: 9780199546961
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"