The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198707541
• ISBN13: 9780198707547
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 10.1"