The Hidden Reality – The Fabric of The Cosmos

Conversations at the Herbst: Brian Green, in conversation with Michael Krasny

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos is the latest book from the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos. In recent years, a growing body of work-based on the principles of quantum mechanics, cosmology, and string theory-has been steadily converging around a proposal that our universe is actually only one of many universes. In fact, research supports a number of different models of parallel universes in which our world appears: for instance, as one of many "bubbles" in a rapidly growing bath of universes, or as one of numerous cosmic slabs separated from one another through additional spatial dimensions. Brian Greene, with his trademark impartiality, crystal-clear prose, and inspired use of analogy, opens up the strange worlds of the "multiverse," taking us on a journey grounded firmly in science, and limited only by our imaginations. Dr. Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He joined the physics faculty of Cornell University in 1990, was appointed to a full professorship in 1995, and in 1996 joined Columbia University where he is professor of physics and mathematics and specializes in theoretical Physics - string theory & quantum gravity. He has lectured at both a general and a technical level in more than twenty-five countries and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He is also the co-director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University.

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