![]() ![]() Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established. ![]() Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. ![]() We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. ![]()
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