Parallel Worlds

Description

The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos

Is our own universe one of many parallel worlds in a ‘megaverse’? In this flight to the frontiers of cosmology, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explores the idea that we may live on the skin of an expanding bubble in an infinitely developing multiverse. Parallel Worlds sets out the scientific concepts that could unravel the greatest mysteries of our existence. Kaku’s exhilarating tour takes in Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Schrödinger and Hawking, relativity and quantum theory, the big bang, black holes, hidden dimensions, dark matter and superstrings. And although it is a story whose ending we may already know, as our galaxy accelerates towards oblivion in a ‘Big Freeze’, Kaku daringly speculates that intelligent life may one day cheat extinction by escaping to a new universe. Presented with a new introduction by the author, plus a frontispiece and 16 pages of spectacular cosmic images, this is a story to inspire wonder and drive curiosity.

Production Details:

• Quarter-bound in blocked cloth with printed paper sides
• Set in Garamond with Futura display
• 464 pages
• Frontispiece plus 16 pages of space photography
• 14 integrated charts and diagrams
• Plain slipcase
• 9½˝ x 6¼˝

A Key To the Secrets of the Universe

For over a century, physicists have struggled to build quantum mechanics into a ‘theory of everything’, capable of explaining all the forces that govern the universe. In Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku makes a passionate case for M-theory, a development of string theory that imagines 11 dimensions to space and time. His flair for explanation places mind-bending breakthroughs in cosmology and physics within the grasp of every reader, and his enthusiasm for this ‘third great revolution’ – after those of Newton and Einstein – shines from every page. As he concludes in his new introduction to the Folio edition, ‘we are entering what may be the golden age of cosmology… a great time to be a physicist and a voyager on this quest to understand our origins and the fate of the universe.’