Name: The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications
ISBN: 9780140275414

We hope you did some spring cleaning on your bookshelves because this week starts a bountiful harvest of new releases including: the buzzing sci-fi rom-com that's already being adapted by A24, Colm Toibin's Brooklyn sequel that some critics are calling his masterpiece, an Argentine novel currently nominated for an International Booker Prize, an astonishing study of the power of plants by a New Yorker writer, and acclaimed memoirs from Jen Psaki, Tom Selleck, Ali Velshi and Brittney Griner.

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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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David Deutsch

For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken literally, it implies that there are many universes "parallel" to the one we see around us. This multiplicity of universes,

Deutsch's pioneering and accessible book integrates recent advances in theoretical physics and computer science to explain and connect many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers, and physics of time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe.

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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications

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