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The Emergent Multiverse - Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation (Paperback)
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The Emergent Multiverse - Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation (Paperback)
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the
'many worlds' approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it
is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what
it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken
literally as a theory of the world, it seems to make crazy claims:
particles are in two places at once; cats are alive and dead at the
same time. So physicists and philosophers have often been led
either to give up on the idea that quantum theory describes
reality, or to modify or augment the theory. The Everett
interpretation of quantum mechanics takes the apparent craziness
seriously, and asks, 'what would it be like if particles really
were in two places at once, if cats really were alive and dead at
the same time'? The answer, it turns out, is that if the world were
like that-if it were as quantum theory claims-it would be a world
that, at the macroscopic level, was constantly branching into
copies-hence the more sensationalist name for the Everett
interpretation, the 'many worlds theory'. But really, the
interpretation is not sensationalist at all: it simply takes
quantum theory seriously, literally, as a description of the world.
Once dismissed as absurd, it is now accepted by many physicists as
the best way to make coherent sense of quantum theory. David
Wallace offers a clear and up-to-date survey of work on the Everett
interpretation in physics and in philosophy of science, and at the
same time provides a self-contained and thoroughly modern account
of it-an account which is accessible to readers who have previously
studied quantum theory at undergraduate level, and which will shape
the future direction of research by leading experts in the field.
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