John Gribbin
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John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary journey through the most fundamental questions in science, exploring the frontiers of reality itself. What are the boundaries of our universe? Could there be other worlds - do we actually live in a multiverse? Will we meet another 'us' in a different reality? Or are alternative worlds parallel but separate? John Gribbin guides us through the different theories about multiverses, along the way explaining the every latest thinking about gravity, about time and multiple dimensions, about quantum theory, about matter itself - and even the mind-bending possibility that one day we may be creating universes ourselves. John Gribbin is the best guide to the big questions of science. And there is no bigger question than our search for the multiverse. 'The master of popular science writing'Sunday Times 'In this universe at least, it's brilliant'
BBC Focus 'Numerous books on the subject have appeared in the past few years, but Gribbin's stands out for succinctness and readability. Long renowned as one of Britain's finest popular science writers, Gribbin combines expert knowledge with straightforward, no-frills exposition'
Scotland on Sunday John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Stardust, Science: A History and Deep Simplicity. Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.
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| Title | : | A multiverzum nyomában |
| Author | : | John Gribbin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 347 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Akkord (first published August 27th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Science. Nonfiction. Physics. Astronomy |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 1136 Users | 45 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books A multiverzum nyomában
It never ceases to amaze me how hard some scientists work to explain away the need for a Creator. It's almost as if they are afraid of a Creator. In order to explain away the universe and everything it contains, they are wont to dream up fantastical theories that could be true, and therefore, with a leap in logic that is never explained but appears to be commonplace in theoretical physics, it must be true. Hence, we live inside of a black hole. That's right: the visible universe exists inside ofJohn Gribbin, an acclaimed science writer and astrophysicist, tackles a number of subjects in his new book, In Search of the Multiverse. People are often sent running for the hills when they hear terms like quantum mechanics, string theory, and not to mention the important differences between general and special relativity. The key with Gribbin is that he doesnt hold back in throwing the reader into the thick of all this scientific thought and theory and then leave them there, but acts as a
This book is another one of the Gribbin-miracle-books which break down the hardest, most abstract concepts and ideas of modern physics to the modern reader.
I don't think I really understood it. But my twelve year-old is reading it now. I give up forever.
Mixing Science and Science Fiction I liked the second chapter very much, but then felt very bored with some other chapters. There is so much of fantasy in this book that I wonder if it should be next to Harry Potter on the shelf.
Not too heavy-handed and I still learned quite a bit from this book. For example, I did not know that a working quantum computer (allbeit a very small, and not scalable, one) has allready been made (it can compute that 15 is the product of 3 and 5!). What I also found very interesting were the statistical arguments in relation to the extreme unlikelyhood of our existence (or is it not?)
The problem with this book lies in it's metaphysics and it's ignorance of some of the philosophical ideas of science, like popperian falsificationism.At only one point in the book do we find a falsifiable hypothesis forwarded that could in practice decide between two competing systems of multiverse - and this turns out to be the effect of gravity that other universes have upon our own universe's gravitational field.The rest of the book is speculative unfalsifiable physics that would benefit well
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